What I Did on My Summer Vacation

Here’s a list of the cool Catholic stuff I saw on my two weeks in England and Italy:

1. The site on Tower Hill where St Thomas More and St John Fisher were beheaded
2. St Henry Walpole’s name carved by him in wall of the Salt Tower at the Tower of London
3. Tyburn where the priests were hung drawn and quartered
4. The relics of St Cuthbert Mayne
5. The tombs of Mary Tudor and Elizabeth I and close by that of Mary Queen of Scots
6. The burial place of the head of St Thomas More
7. The site of the martyrdom of St Thomas Becket
8. The place where T,S.Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral was first performed
9. The hand of St Etheldreda
10. The priest’s hole at Oxborough Hall
11. The bare ruined choirs of Walsingham
12. A statue of St Edmund Campion which I brought home with me
13. The house where they found John Shakespeare’s secret Catholic tract
14. The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe
15. Shakespeare’s grave
16. J.R.R.Tolkien’s grave
17. Lots of churches in Rome
18. The head of St Valentine
19. The tomb of St Peter
20. The Colosseum
21. The relics of the true cross
22. The marble throne of St Gregory the Great who sent St Augustine to England
23. San Clemente (again)
24. The birthplace of St Benedict and St Scholastica
25. Young monks at Norcia
26. The incorrupt body of St Rita (who they say has been known to move and open her eyes)
27. the tomb of St Francis and St Clare
28. Sant Antimo Abbey
29. The head of St Catherine of Siena
30. Monte Oliveto Monastery and the hermitage of Saint Barnardo Tolomei
31. The relics of Saint John Bosco and St Dominic Savio
32. The tomb of Bl Pier Giorgio Frassati
33. The Shroud of Turin