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THEY CHOSE TO OBEY THE CHURCH RATHER THAN CIVIL AUTHORITY

Bl. William Andleby Feastday: July 4 1597 Martyr of England. Born at Eton, near Beverley, England, he studied at St. Johns College, Cambridge, and was converted to Catholicism on the way to fight the Spanish. He went to Douai, France, and was ordained in 1577. Returning home, he worked inYorkshire and Lincolnshire for two decades. Arrested and condemned, he was executed at York with Thomas Warcop and two companions. He was beatified in 1929. Bl. Thomas Bosgrave Feastday: July 4 1594 English martyr. The nephew of Sir J. Arundel, Thomas was arrested by English authorities at Arundel's Chidicock Castle in Dorset. He was hanged at Dorchester with Blessed John Cornelius and two of his servants. He was beatified. Bl. Thomas Warcop Feastday: July 4 1597 English martyr. A gentleman in Yorkshire, England, who sheltered Blessed William Andleby. He was arrested and condemned for giving this aid and hanged atYork with three companions on July 4. Bl. Edward Fulthrop Feastday: July 4 1597 An Eng