Feast of the 40 English and Welsh martyrs canonized by Paul VI on October 25, 1970. They include 3 Carthusians priors More watched going to their deaths on May 4, 1535, along with monk Richard Reynolds. Included too, martyrs under Elizabeth I, 2 famous Jesuits Edmund Campion and Robert Southwell and Margaret Clitherow of York

1498 > Erasmus finds his first sponsor in William Mountjoy, 19, who accommodates him and spoils him. They will leave in June, 1499 for England, where Erasmus will stay until January, 1500

1525 > Death in London of Thomas Linacre physician and priest. More, with Bishops Stokesley and Tunstal, administer the funds he left for a medical Chair in Oxford and Cambridge. Tunstal, in its will, will ask to be buried in St Paul's near his " old friend Master Linacre "