02Knights Templar - Julian Emperor

SAINTS DURING THE REFORMATION
sentence but they refused to do so. Over the course of the
next couple of years, many of the remaining members of the
Carthusian community took the oath in the face of the threat
of death but some remained defiant. Horrifically, ten
Carthusian monks who refused to take the oath were placed
in Newgate Prison where they were left to die of starvation.
St Philip Howard
Just as the reign of HenryVIII had created martyrs in England
for the Roman Catholic Church, so too did the reign of his
daughter Elizabeth I. Prominent amongst these was Philip
Howard, the earl of Arundel. Born in 1557, he was the eldest
son of the Duke of Norfolk and was one of the highest-ranking
aristocrats in England. He was the heir not only to the
earldom of Arundel but also to five other baronies. He was
raised as a protestant but the loyalty of his father to Queen
Elizabeth was questioned when he offered to marry Mary
Queen of Scots.The Duke of Norfolk was tried on a charge of
high treason, pronounced guilty and subsequently executed in
1572. Although the treason of his father blackened the family
name, Howard was given into the charge of Lord Burghley
and he received a good education at Cambridge University.
Despite his family history, he went on to achieve favour at
the court of Elizabeth I. However, in 1581, Howard took the
decision to leave England and to become a Catholic. He had
apparently been persuaded to embrace Catholicism by the arguments
of the Jesuit priest and martyr Edmund Campion.
He took a ship to Europe with his wife Anne Dacres, planning
to start a new life and to convert to Catholicism. When his
plan was discovered, the ship he was travelling on was stopped
and he was placed under arrest. He was then held in theTower
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