Trailer for an upcoming film on St. Edmund Arrowsmith who was an Englishman in the late 16th and early 17th Century England. He undertook 15 years of secret missions throughout Lancashire bringing the outlawed Catholic Faith to the persecuted English Catholics. Hunted and travelling in secret he was finally betrayed by a man in the Blue Anchor Inn in Brindle, Lancashire. He was executed for being a Catholic priest. He was 43 years old and is one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales - the Catholic Church honours him as a brave witness to the Catholic Faith in times of persecution and elevates his heroic life for us to study and gain great spiritual inisght from his courage, devotion and witness. This will be a film available on DVD from Amazon UK, Amazon Com and www.marysdowryproductions.org - due for release in 2012
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