“May the sight of the great number of your holy Martyrs gladden us, O Lord, making our faith stronger and bringing us consolation by the prayers of them all. “ (Roman Missal)

St Peter enthroned with Sts Paul and John the Baptist, Giovanni Battista Cima da Conegliano, 1515-16 ©Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan – MiC

During the final week of June, the Church marks midsummer with a string of feasts celebrating holy men who died as witnesses to Christ.  Saint John the Baptist is well known from the Gospels, like his Galilean follower Simon the fisherman – otherwise known as St Peter.  Alongside Peter, we celebrate his fellow Apostle Paul. In England, this season also marks the witness of two men who died nearly 500 years ago: Cardinal John Fisher and Sir Thomas More.

Join curator and art historian Amina Wright for a weekend of illustrated meditations on the life and witness of these Saints, as retold by artists.

Amina Wright

Amina Wright is an art lecturer and curator of historic art collections with an MA in Christianity and the Arts from King’s College London.  Until recently, she was Senior Curator at the Faith Museum in County Durham.

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