State ordained priest recants and is executed

Bl. Robert Sutton
Feastday: October 5
1588
English martyr. Born at Kegwell, Leicestershire, he became an Anglican priest, studying at Oxford. In 1575, he converted and went to Douai, France. He returned to England and was arrested in London and hanged at Clerkenwell.

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