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Helping people to have a better life on their way to hell is not the purpose of the ‘Church.’
Explain why Jesus is the reason for your good works.
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KESWICK
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John Leyburne
1615 -
John Leyburne, bishop and pastor. John was from that area above Kendal, of halls and farms from Selside to Skelsmergh, which has always had deep Roman Catholic connections. Some perhaps, certainly the eight martyrs from the area about Dodding Green, could have more obvious claims to sanctity, but quiet, realistic wisdom has its place also.
Macauley described him as a man of 'some learning and a rich vein of natural humour
. . ..the most cautious, dexterous and taciturn of men'. He was a bishop, aged 70
years, called for by James II, and he needed all these qualities to save his co-
Certainly Leyburne put right aside any temptation to be a court prelate in a Catholic
re-
The direct successors of Leyburne and his flock make up the Roman Catholic community
today. He Showed the way ahead; realistic, humble, assiduous pastoral work. Plotters
and dreamers of his own church opposed him, but it was Leyburne who went into the
Tower for a spell in the time of reaction of 1688. So he came in some way close
to the martyrs of former years from his family and native lands.