Providence has seen to it that the new Bishop of Plymouth has a strong connection with one of the diocese’s patron saints. Mgr Mark O’Toole was rector of Allen Hall seminary in Chelsea, London, when he was first phoned by the nuncio about of his new appointment, on 29 October – the feast of the Douai Martyrs. The first of these was St Cuthbert Mayne. Allen Hall is the daughter college of Douai, France, while St Cuthbert Mayne is also Allen Hall’s proto-martyr.St Cuthbert was born in 1543/4, in Barnstaple, Devon, and was ordained in the Church of England before meeting Catholics, including Edmund Campion, at Oxford, which led to his conversion. After his Catholicism became known to the authorities he went to study at the English College, in Douai, where he was ordai