From Catholic Herald:
The convent’s very existence fulfils the prophecy made in 1585 by Fr Gregory Gunne when, during his own trial, he rebuked an Elizabethan court for having sentenced St Edmund Campion to death at Tyburn. “You have slain the greatest man in England,” he said. “I will add that one day there, where you have put him to death, a religious house will arise, thanks to an important offering.”
We can't discover the outcome of Gunne's trial - was he also put to death at Tyburn?
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Gregory Gunne
{On a slate-grey plaque with gold lettering:} In 1585 Gregory Gunne predicte...
Born Islington. Ecclesiastical historian and poet. At Pembroke College, Oxford, he became one of the ‘Birmingham Group’ along with William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones. He was considered for Poe...
105 Catholic martyrs lost their lives at the Tyburn gallows, 1535 - 1681. The Tyburn Convent website explains but only lists a few. We have found other memorials to a few of them: John Houghton a...
Preacher and theologian. Born Dumfriesshire. Founded the Catholic Apostolic church, commonly called the "Irvingites". Arrived in London to take charge of the Gaelic Chapel in Hatton Place. He was s...
Non-conformist minister. Born Lancashire. Buried in Bunhill burial ground.
From Exploring Southwark: "The Norwegian Mission Society opened a mission in Rotherhithe in 1868, originally in a temporary church until a permanent building, called the Ebenezer Church, was opened...
The Lewisham War Memorials website says that the inscription on the main memorial reads: 'To the memory of Lewisham heroes 1914 - 1918 an...
From the school's website: "In 1666, after the Great Fire of London, many inhabitants of the Old City of London moved to the medieval town of Westminster. With its congested and squalid alleys, the...
The 3.25 metre panorama to which the text refers can be seen at the Government Art Collection. There is a zoom feature so you can look in...
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