25 October

. . . .in the traditional calendar is the feast of the Roman martyrs Ss. Chrysanthus and Daria, a married couple martyred for Christ. Also commemorated are the martyred brothers, Crispin and Crispinian. Their stories can be found here.

In the reformed calendar in England and Wales this is the proper feast of the English and Welsh martyrs: Ss. Cuthbert Mayne, John Houghton, Edmund Campion, Richard Gwynn, and thirty-six companions.
All the forty martyrs are listed here with some have brief descriptions of their lives linked.

If you can lay your hands on a copy, an excellent way to become more familiar with the English and Welsh martyrs - and a handful of Scots and Irish, too - is with Henry Sebastian Bowden's Mementoes of the Martyrs and Confessors of England and Wales for Every Day in the Year. It was first published in 1910 and a revised edition was put out in 1962.