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Every year the Postgate Society hosts a Mass on the Moors in honour of Blessed Nicholas Postgate.
Father Postgate was born at Egton, and having been ordained priest at Douay, returned to Ugthorpe, from where he ministered to the scattered Catholics of the area between Guisborough, Pickering, and Scarborough.
Each year at the Postgate Rally we pray for Blessed Nicholas's intercession, and for his canonization.
After decades of quietly exercising his priesthood, the fictitious Titus Oates plot stirred up hysteria against Catholics, and Father Postgate was arrested at the age of 82, while carrying out a baptism near Whitby. He was condemned to be hanged, drawn, and quartered - a sentence carried out on the Knavesmire in York on 7th August 1879.
After the Mass, we headed to Whitby for fish and chips, and some bracing sea air.
If you want another grand day out, come to the Lady Chapel at Osmotherley on Sunday, 17th August, to celebrate the Assumption. Mass is at 3pm.
