July 24th.  St. John Boste. 

Born in Cumbria in 1543 and educated at Oxford, he became a Catholic in 1576 and was trained at the English College at Reims in France, being ordained in 1581.  His activity ministry extended over some ten years, mostly in the North, often disguised as a servant in the livery of Lord Montacute.  He was betrayed in 1593, sent the Tower, and then tried at Durham in 1594.  He denied that he was a traitor: “My function is to invade souls, not to meddle with temporal invasions”.  Found guilty, he was put to death at Bryburn, near Durham, only July 24 1594; he was canonised as one of the Forty Martyrs in 1970.