Saint Berard of Carbio is a thirteenth century saint and martyr. He was born into a noble family of Leopardi, and was a native of Carbio in Umbria, a province of Italy. He and Saints Peter, Otho, Accursius, and Adjutus are venerated as the Franciscan Protomartyrs.

Berard was received into the Franciscan Order by Saint Francis in 1213. He was well versed in Arabic, was an eloquent preacher, and was chosen by Francis, together with two other priests, Peter and Otho, and two lay brothers, Accursius and Adjutus, to evangelize the "infidels of the East". On the conclusion of the Second General Chapter of the Franciscan Friars in 1219, Saint Francis believed the time had then come for the religious of his order to extend their apostolic labors beyond the Italian peninsula and northern Europe; and, choosing for himself and twelve other religious the greater part of Syria and Egypt, he allotted to Berard and his companions the missions of Morocco.

The five missionaries set sail from Italy and landed in Seville. After sojourning some time in Spain and Portugal, they traveled to the Kingdom of Morocco. Despite the fact that the only one of the five who knew any Arabic was Berard, their open preaching of the Gospel and their bold denunciation of Islam soon caused them to be viewed as insane. However, when it became apparent they would neither go away nor stop preaching, they were apprehended and cast into prison. Having vainly endeavored to persuade them to abandon their Catholic faith, the Moorish king, in a fit of rage, beheaded them with his scimitar, making them the first martyrs of the Franciscan Order.

Richie Webb is an award-winningBritish comedy writer, actor and composer. He was educated at Wolverhampton Grammar School.

As a writer and performer, he is perhaps best known for his work on BBC Radio 4 comedy programmes. He began his career as a member of The Cheese Shop and went on to have regular musical comedy slots on both Week Ending and Parsons and Naylor's Pull-Out Sections. He is currently co-creator and star of 15 Minute Musical which won the 2009 Writers' Guild Award for Best Radio Comedy and a regular on Broken Arts and Look Away Now.

He is also a prolific composer of music for television - often with partner music producer Matt Katz - contributing to many comedy programmes, such as That Mitchell and Webb Look, Headcases, Dead Ringers and Coming of Age, as well as to a large number of children's programmes, such as Horrible Histories, My Almost Famous Family, Jackanory, Doodle Do, Bamzooki, Bear Behaving Badly and Ed and Oucho's Excellent Inventions.

He has recently co-founded a Radio production company Top Dog, lives in Warwickshire, and has a season ticket for West Bromwich Albion.