The Parish of Ashton in Makerfield in the County of -- Lancashire --

The Roman Catholic Church
of
St Oswald and St Edmund Arrowsmith

	St Oswald and St Edmund Arrowsmith, Photograph by Peter Wood, summer 2007

St Edmund Arrowsmith, born at Haydock in 1585, is one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales who were canonized by Pope Paul VI to represent the Catholics martyred in England and Wales between 1535 and 1679. He was charged with high treason and hanged, drawn and quartered in August 1628, at Lancaster. The church preserves one of his hands in a silver casket. It is an object of veneration and many cures are attributed to the Martyr's intercession.