PL 14 • Age 21 • 1606

The chalice was spilt & I was free.

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When Mary’s confessor was saying Mass in London in 1606, it happened by divine permission that he inadvertently spilt the chalice. This wrought such a change in him that when Mary, after Mass, respectfully handed him a towel to dry his hands, he said to her with tears streaming from his eyes: I will never more hinder your religious design, but further you all I can. And so it happened.

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It is 1606 and the church is in Baldwin’s Gardens in London.

The Gunpowder Plot has recently occurred, creating tension and trouble in the city.

Mary attends Mass with her father, Marmaduke, who, along with her confessor Fr. Holtby, wants her to marry instead of going to a convent.

In the small inset above, Mary is in the sacristy with Fr. Holtby, handing him a towel.

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PL 14 • Age 21 • 1606

The chalice was spilt & I was free.

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