English Speaking Saints And Martyrs

St. Thomas Becket - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Thomas Becket, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr. was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 until his murder in 1170. He is venerated as a saint and martyr by both the Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion. He engaged in conflict with Henry II of England over the rights and privileges of the Church and was murdered by followers of the king in Canterbury Cathedral. Soon after his death, he was canonised by Pope Alexander III. Feastday Dec 29

Bl. William Howard - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. William Howard, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr. He was arrested on the false accusation of complicity in the so-called Popish Plot and imprisoned for two years before finally being beheaded on Tower Hill. Feastday Dec 29

12th February - Blessed James Fenn and Companions - Independent Catholic News Martyrs. Born in 1540, James Fenn came from Montacute, near Yeovil in Somerset. His brothers John and Robert were both priests. He studied at Corpus Christi College in Oxford where he was known as a fine singer - but he was expelled when he refused to take the oath of supremacy declaring Queen Elizabeth head of the Church. He subsequently became a schoolteacher, married, and had two children.

St. John Almond - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. John Almond, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr. He was hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn. Feastday Dec.5

Bl. Edward Coleman - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. Edward Coleman, Roman Catholic layman and English Martyr. He was executed at Tyburn. Feastday Dec. 3

St. Alexander Briant - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Alexander Briant, Roman Catholic Jesuit Priest and English Martyr, tortured and then hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn. Feastday Dec 1

St. Edmund Campion - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Edmund Campion, Roman Catholic Jesuit Priest and English Martyr. He refused to apostatize when offered rich inducements to do so, was tortured and then hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn. Feastday Dec.1

St. Edmund Rich - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Edmund Rich, Roman Catholic Priest. Edmund preached a crusade for Pope Gregory IX and was named archbishop of Canterbury. Feastday: November 20

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Bl. John Thorne - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. John Thorne, Roman Catholic Benedictine Martyr of England. The Treasurer of Glastonbury Abbey, he was martyred with Blessed Richard Whiting and Blessed Roger James for protecting various treasures of Glastonbury from seizure by the rapacious minions of King Henry VIII of England. Feastday Nov 15

Bl. Roger James - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. Roger James, Roman Catholic Benedictine Martyr of England. Monk of Glastonbury Abbey, when the monks opposed the royal decree, Roger was hanged, drawn, and quartered on Tor Hill, over looking Glastonbury, with his abbot, Blessed Richard Whiting, and with Blessed John Thome. Feastday Nov 15

Bl. Richard Whiting - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. Richard Whiting, Roman Catholic Benedictine Martyr of England. Abbot of Glastonbury Abbey, he refused to surrender his celebrated abbey into the hands of the crown, he was condemned as a traitor and hanged on Tor Hill, overlooking Glastonbury, with Blesseds Roger James and John Thorne. Feastday Nov 15

Bl. Hugh Green - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. Hugh Green, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr. His executioner was quite unskilled and could not find Green's heart; the butchery, with appalling cruelty, was prolonged for nearly half an hour. After his execution, the mob played football with his head. Feastday Nov 11

Bl. John Eynon - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. John Eynon, Roman Catholic Benedictine Priest and English Martyr. John served as the pastor of the local parish in St. Giles. He refused to surrender the parish to the authorities and was taken to Reading Abbey. He was executed at the abbey gateway with Blessed Hugh Farington and Blessed John Rugg Feastday Nov 15

Justus of Canterbury - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Justus of Canterbury, Roman Catholic Priest. the fourth Archbishop of Canterbury. He was sent from Italy to England by Pope Gregory the Great, on a mission to Christianize the Anglo-Saxons from their native paganism, probably arriving with the second group of missionaries despatched in 601. Justus became the first Bishop of Rochester in 604. Feastday Nov 10

Bl. John Bodey - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. John Bodey, Roman Catholic and English Martyr. When he repudiated King Henry VIII’s claim of supremacy in spiritual matters, he was arrested in 1550. John was imprisoned at Winchester until 1583, when he was taken on November 2 to Andover where he was hanged. Feastday: November 2

Bl. John Slade - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. John Slade, Roman Catholic layman and English Martyr. John denied King Henry Viii’s supremacy in religious matters and was arrested and tried with Blessed John Bodey. They were hanged, drawn, and quartered at Winchester. Feastday: October 30

Bl. Maria Restituta - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. Maria Restituta, Roman Catholic Nun and Martyr. Sr. Mary Restituta was arrested by the Gestapo and accused not only of hanging the crosses but also of having written a poem mocking Hitler.On 29 October 1942 she was sentenced to death by the guillotine. Feastday: October 29 The Nazis offered her freedom if she would abandon the Franciscan sisters, but she refused. When a request for clemency reached the desk of Martin Bormann, a high ranking Nazi official, he replied that her execution would provide “effective intimidation” for others who might want to resist the Nazis. She spent the rest of her days in prison caring for other prisoners. She was beheaded on 30 March 1943. She was 48 years old. Feastday Oct 29

Douai Martyrs - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Martyrs of Douai, Roman Catholic Priests and Martyrs in England. A group of 160 priests trained at the English College of Douai, in France. They were martyred in England and Wales during the century following the foundation of the famed college by Cardinal William Allen in 1568. All perished at the hands of English authorities while laboring to reconvert the island. Feastday Oct 29

St. Cuthbert Mayne - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Cuthbert Mayne, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr. Before being brought to the place of execution, Mayne was offered his life in return for a renunciation of his religion and an acknowledgment of the supremacy of the queen as head of the church. Declining both offers, he kissed a copy of the Bible, declaring that, "the queen neither ever was, nor is, nor ever shall be, the head of the church of England". Feastday Oct 29

St. Cuthbert of Canterbury - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Cuthbert of Canterbury, Roman Catholic Benedictine archbishop of Canterbury. He was a monk at Lyminge, in Kent, England, until about 736, when he was appointed the bishop of Hereford. About 740, he became the archbishop of Canterbury. He is remembered as one of St. Boniface's correspondents in England. Feastday Oct 26

St. Alfred the Great - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Alfred the Great-Roman Catholic King of England- Feastday October 26

St. John Houghton - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. John Houghton, Roman Catholic Carthusian Monk and Protomartyr of the English Reformation. He refused to swear to the Oath of Supremacy, the first man to make this refusal. Dragged through the streets, he was executed at Tyburn with four companions by being hanged, drawn, and quartered. Parts of his remains were put on display in assorted spots throughout London. Feastday Oct 25

St. Ambrose Edward Barlow - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Ambrose Edward Barlow, Roman Catholic Benedictine Priest and English Martyr. he was taken from Lancaster Castle, drawn on a hurdle to the place of execution, hanged, dismembered, quartered, and boiled in oil. His head was afterwards exposed on a pike. Feastday Oct 25

St. John Roberts - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. John Roberts, Roman Catholic Benedictine Priest and English Martyr. With Blessed Thomas Somers, he was hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn. Feastday Oct 25

Bl. Thomas Thwing - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. Thomas Thwing, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr. He was condemned and hanged, drawn, and quartered at York. Feastday Oct 23

St. Philip Howard - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St, Phillip Howard Roman catholic English martyr. Feastday Oct 19

St. Charles Garnier - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Charles Garnier, Roman Catholic Jesuit Priest and Martyr. Charles was murdered by a war party of Iroquois, He is one of the North American Martyrs. Feastday Oct 19

St. Ethelbert and Etheired - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Sts. Ethelbert and Etheired, Roman Catholics and English Martyrs. Martyred great grandsons of King Ethelbert of Kent, England (d. 616), at Eastery near Sandwich. Their shrine is at Ramsey Abbey in Huntingdonshire. Feast day is October 17th.

St. Richard Gwyn - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Richard Gwyn, Roman Catholic Layman and English Martyr. He Converted from Protestantism, he returned to Wales in 1562, married, had six children, and opened a school. Arrested in 1579, he spent four years in prison before his execution by being hanged, drawn, and quartered at Wrexham on October 15, for being a Catholic. Feastday Oct 17

Bl. John Robinson - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. John Robinson, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr. Ordained in 1585, John went back to England and was executed at Ipswich. Feastday Oct 1

St. Ralph Crockett - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Ralph Crockett, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr. Ralph was martyred at Chichester by being hanged, drawn, and quartered. Feastday Oct 1

Bl. Edward James - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. Edward James, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr. Returning as a missionary to England, he was arrested and martyred at Chichester. Feastday Oct 1

Bl. Robert Wilcox - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. Robert Wilcox, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr. Robert was arrested in Marsh sea. He was hanged, drawn, and quartered with Blessed Robert Widmerpool at Canterbury. Feastday Oct 1

Bl. Thomas Johnson - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. Thomas Johnson, Roman Catholic Priest and English Carthusian Martyr. A member of the London Charterhouse, he was arrested with fellow monks for opposing the claim by King Henry VIII of spiritual supremacy over the English Church. Imprisoned at Newgate, Thomas was starved to death. Feastday Sept 20

Bl. Ralph Corby - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. Ralph Corby Roman Catholic Jesuit Priest and English Martyr. Arrested and martyred on September 7 at Tyburn with Blessed John Duckett. They were hanged, drawn, and quartered. Feastday, September 7.

Bl. John Duckett Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr. Arrested and martyred on September 7 at Tyburn with Blessed Ralph Corby. They were hanged, drawn, and quartered. Feastday, September 7 Bl. John Duckett - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online

7th September: Blessed John Duckett and Blessed Ralph Corby - Independent Catholic News Blessed John Duckett and Blessed Ralph Corby Roman Catholic English Martyrs, Feastday Sept 7

Bl.Teresa of Calcutta - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl.Teresa of Calcutta, Roman Catholic Nun, Feastday Sept 5

Bl. William Browne - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. William Browne, Roman Catholic Martyr of England. He was a layman in Northamptonshire arrested and executed at Ripon for being a Catholic. He is associated in martyrdom with Blesseds Thomas Welbourne and John Fulthering. Feastday Sept.5

Bl. Richard Bere - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. Richard Bere, Roman Catholic Monk and English Martyr. When he and his fellow monks voiced their opposition to the planned divorce of King Henry VIII from Catherine of Aragon, they were starved to death in Newgate Prison. Feastday Aug 31

St. Pelagius, Arsenius, and Sylvanus - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Pelagius, Arsenius, and Sylvanus, Martyrs in Spain, they were hermits who resided in the area around Burgos, in Old Castile, who were put to death by Muslim Moors. Feastday Aug 30 St. Pelagius of Cordova, Martyr in Cordoba, Spain. Also called Pelayo, he was a young boy of Asturias who was left by his uncle as a hostage to the Moors of Cordoba. As he remained un-ransomed for three years, the Cordoban ruler Emir Abd al-Rahman III offered to free him if he would but renounce his Christianity and become a Muslim. He refused, and the emir ordered him tortured. Pelagius died after six hours of agony. Rhoswitha of Gandersheim, a Benedictine poetess, composed a poem in his honor. Feastday Aug 30

St. Richard Martin - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Richard Martin, Roman Catholic English Martyr, a devout Catholic. Arrested for giving shelter to priests, he was hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn with Blesseds Richard Leigh, Edward Shelley, John Roche, Richard Flowers, and St. Margaret Ward. Feastday Aug 30 Bl. Richard Leigh, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr, arrested for being a priest and, with Blesseds Richard Martin, Edward Shelley, John Roche, Richard Flowers, and St. Margaret Ward, was executed at Tyburn. Feastday Aug 30

Bl. Edward Shelley - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. Edward Shelley, Roman Catholic English Martyr, He sheltered priests and was hung at Tyburn. Feastday Aug 30

Bl. Richard Herst - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. Richard Herst, Roman Catholic English Martyr, hanged at Lancaster on August 29 because of his refusal to deny Catholicism. He was offered his freedom if he took the Oath of Supremacy but declined. Feastday Aug 29

Bl. Hugh More - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. Hugh More, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr He was a native of Lincolnshire, educated at Oxford. After converting while at Reims, Hugh was martyred at Lincoln’s Inn Fields by hanging. Feastday Aug 28

Bl. Robert Morton - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. Robert Morton, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr. He was executed at Lincoln's Inn Fields, London. Feastday Aug 28

Bl. Thomas Felton - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. Thomas Felton, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr, hanged at lsleworth, London. Feastday Aug 28

Bl. Thomas Holford - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. Thomas Holford, Roman Catholic English Martyr. Raised a Protestant, he worked as a schoolmaster in Herefordshire until converting to the Catholic faith. He left England and was ordained at Reims in 1583. Going home, he labored in the areas around Cheshire and London until his arrest. He was hanged at Clerkenwell in London. Feastday Aug 28

St. Edmund Arrowsmith - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Edmund Arrowsmith, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr. He was convicted of being a Catholic priest, sentenced to death, and hanged, drawn, and quartered at Lancaster on August 28th. Feastday aug 28

Bl. John Roche & Margaret Ward - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. John Roche s pardon and promise to go to church; to which they replied that they had done nothing that could reasonably offend her Majesty, and that it was against their conscience to attend a protestant church. So they were condemned. These martyrs, who suffered with such firm constancy and patience, were forbidden to speak to the people from the scaffold because their persecutors were afraid of the impression they would make. Feastday Aug 28

Bl. William Dean - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. William Dean, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr, originally a minister who was converted to Catholicism, executed in Nile End Green, London. Feastday Aug 28

Bl. William Guntei - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. William Guntei, Roman Catholic Priest and Martyr of Wales. A native of Raglan, Gwent, Wales, he was a Catholic who received ordination at Reims, France, in 1587. He returned to England to work for the Catholic mission. Captured, he was hanged at Shoreditch. Feastday Aug 28

St. Margaret the Barefooted - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Margaret the Barefooted-Roman Catholic Laywoman Wife and model of charity. She was born into a poor family at San Severino, Ancona, Italy. Married at fifteen, she suffered through ill treatment from her husband with prayer, while begging alms for the poor and sick. She walked as barefooted as the lowliest beggar. Feastday Aug 27 Patron of brides, difficult marriages, victims of abuse, widows

Bl. Thomas Percy - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. Thomas Percy, Roman Catholic English Martyr. For three years in prison, refusing fervently to abjure his faith in return for his freedom. Thomas was finally beheaded at York. Feastday Aug 26

St. John Kemble - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. John Kemble, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr. At the age of eighty-one, he was arrested at Pembridge Castle, the home of his brother. He was falsely charged in the Titus Qates Plot and condemned for being a Catholic. He was hanged, drawn, and quartered at Hereford. Feastday Aug 22

Bl. Richard Kirkman - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. Richard Kirkman, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr, he was arrested near Wakefield. He was hanged, drawn, and quartered near York with Blessed William Lacey, on August 22, for denying the supremacy of Queen Elizabeth I as head of the Church of England. Feastday Aug 22

Bl. William Lacey - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. William Lacey, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr. He was arrested in York Prison while participating in the Eucharistic ceremony being sung in the cell of Blessed Thomas Bell. Condemned, he was executed at Knavesmaire ,just outside of York with Blessed Richard Kirkman. Feastday Aug 22

St. Hormisdas Pope - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Hormisdas Roman Catholic Pope from 514-523, successor to St. Symmachus, and father of Pope St. Silverius Born in Frosinone, Campagna di Roma, Italy, he was an Italian, although he had a Persian name. Married and widowed prior to ordination, he succeeded St. Symmachus on July 21, 514. One of his great achievements was the ending of the Acacian Schism which had divided the Eastern and Western Churches since 484. The Church in Constantinople was reunited to Rome in 519 as a result of the confession called the Formula of Hormisdas. This document was signed by Patriarch John of Constantinople and 250 Eastern bishops. Hormisdas also received Laurentian schismatics into the Church and secured the acceptance of the Tome of Leo I and the decrees of the Council of Chalcedon and the recognition of the authority of the Holy See over the universal Church. Feastday Aug. 6

St. Addal - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Addal, Roman Catholic Priest and Martyr. A disciple of Christ sent by St. Thomas to the court of King Abgar the Black, the second century Osroene ruler. Legendary accounts claim Abgar wrote to Christ asking Jesus to cure him of an intolerable and incurable illness. Feastday Aug. 5

Bl. William Horne - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. William Horne, Roman Catholic Carthusian lay brother and English Martyr. A member of the London Charterhouse of the Carthusians, he was arrested for opposing the religious policies of King Henry VIII (r. 1509-1547), which included the imprisonment of Catholics and the destruction of monasteries. William was executed at Tyburn with two companions. Feastday Aug. 4

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Bl. Everard Hanse - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. Everard Hanse, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr, raised a Protestant in Northhamptonshire, England, studied at Cambridge, and was ordained a minister. In 1568, he converted to the Church and went to Reims, France, where he was ordained in 1581. Returning as a missionary, Everard was arrested and condemned. He was hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn on July 31

Bl. Edward Powell - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. Edward Powell, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr, a councilor to Queen Catherine of Aragon, wife of King Henry VIII. A Welshman. opposed the spiritual supremacy of Henry VIII. For this he spent six years in prison before being hanged, drawn, and quartered at Smithfield, London. Feastday July 30

Bl. Thomas Abel - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. Thomas Abel, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr, Arrested by English authorities for denying the spiritual supremacy of the king, he was incarcerated in the Tower of London for six years, finally receiving execution at Smithfield. His act of attainder states that he and three others "have most traitorously adhered themselves unto the bishop of Rome, being a common enemy unto your Majesty and this your Realm, refusing your Highness to be our and their Supreme Head of this your Realm of England". Abel was sentenced to "be drawn on a hurdle to the place of execution, there to be hanged, cut down alive, your members to be cut off and cast in the fire, your bowels burnt before your eyes, your head smitten off, your body to be quartered at the King's will, and God have mercy on your soul." Feastday July 30

Bl. Richard Featherstone - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. Richard Featherstone, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr. Richard served as a chaplain to Queen Catherine of Aragon and tutor to the princess Mary I. In the crisis which attended the king's efforts to secure divorce from his wife, Richard spoke openly in her defense and was arrested for treason and executed at Tyburn. Feastday July 30

Bl. John Ingram - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. John Ingram, Roman Catholic Jesuit Priest and English Martyr, he was hanged, drawn, and quartered. Feastday July 26

Bl. William Ward - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. William Ward, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr. On July 26, he was executed at Tyburn. Feastday July 26

St. John Boste - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. John Boste, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr. One of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales, he was crippled on the rack and returned to Dryburn near Durham. On July 24, he was hanged, drawn, and quartered. Feastday July 24

Sts. Philip Evans & John Lloyd, Martyrs - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Sts. Philip Evans & John Lloyd, Roman Catholic Jesuit Priests and English Martyrs, they were tried for being priests and coming to England and Wales contrary to the provisions of the law, and were declared guilty of treason for exercising their priesthood. Feastday July 22

St. John Plessington - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. John Plessington, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr, he was imprisoned for two months, and then hanged, drawn and quartered for the crime of being a Catholic priest. Feastday July 19

Bl. Thomas Tunstal - Bl. Thomas Tunstal, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr. He spent six years in confinement until being hanged, drawn, and quartered. Feastday July 13

Bl. David Gonson - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. David Gonson,  Roman Catholic Knight of St. John and English Martyr . David was hanged, drawn, and quartered at Southwark. Feastday July 12

St. John Jones - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. John Jones, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr. arrested, severely tortured and scourged kept in prison for two years, then hanged, drawn, and quartered at Southwark, London. John Jones' dismembered remains were fixed atop poles on roads leading to Newington and Lambeth. Feastday July 12

St. John Wall - Saints St. John Wall, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr, and imprisoned for five months. He was martyred by being hanged, drawn, and quartered at Redhill. Feastday July12

St. Mary Hermina Grivot - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Mary Hermina Grivot, Roman Catholic Nun and Martyr in China. Feastday: July 9

9th July - The Martyrs of Gorkum - Independent Catholic News These were a group of nineteen Dutch religious, including Franciscans, Dominicans Premonstratensian Canons and diocesan priests who were hanged by militant Dutch Calvinists at Briel in 1572 during the war of independence with Spain. After imprisonments and tortures, a mob hauled them before the fanatical pirate Admiral Lumey. William of Orange ordered their release and the local authorities deplored the arrest but to no avail. When the group refused to deny Catholic teaching on the Eucharist and the Papacy, they were tortured and hanged at a deserted monastery near Briel. A shrub bearing 19 white flowers is said to have sprung up at the site of the martyrdom. Many miracles have been attributed to the intercession of the Gorkum martyrs, especially the curing of hernias. The beatification of the martyrs took place on 14 November 1675, and their canonization on 29 June 1865. For many years the place of their martyrdom in B

Bl. Adrian Fortescue - Saints Bl. Adrian Fortescue, Roman Catholic English Martyr,  he refused to take the Oath of Supremacy supporting Henry VIII' s separation for Rome, Adrian was placed in the Tower of London. Permitted no trial and condemned by Parliament, Adrian was beheaded along with Thomas Dinglay. Feastday July9

St. Humphrey Lawrence, Roman Catholic English Martyr. He openly called Queen Elizabeth I a heretic and she had him arrested immediately. He was hanged, drawn, and quartered at Winchester. Feastday July 7

Bl. Ralph Milner - Saints Bl. Ralph Milner, Roman Catholic English Martyr.  He was arrested the day he received his first Communion. A husbands man by trade, Ralph was allowed a leave from prison and aided priests and Catholics. He was executed at Winchester on July by being hanged, drawn, and quartered for giving assistance to Blessed Roger Dickenson. Feastday July 7

Bl. Thomas Alfield - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. Thomas Alfield, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr. While raised as an Anglican, he eventually was converted to Catholicism and left England to study for the priesthood at Douai and Reims, France, receiving ordination in 1581. Returning to England, he was soon arrested while handing out copies of the polemic True and Modest Defence by Dr. Allen. Condemned, he was hanged at Tyburn. Feastday July 6

Bl. Edward Fulthrop - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. Edward Fulthrop, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr, he was condemned as a Catholic priest. He was executed at York with three laymen, John Abbot, Thomas Warcop, and William Andleby. Feastday July 4

1st July - Saint Oliver Plunkett - Independent Catholic News Roman Catholic Archbishop and English/Irish Martyr. He was hung, drawn and quartered at Tyburn on this day in 1684

Bl. Philip Powell - Saints Bl. Philip Powell, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr, hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn. Feastday June 30

St. John Southworth - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Saint John Southworth. Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr. He was hung, drawn and quartered at Tyburn, Feastday June 27

St. Thomas Garnet - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Thomas Garnet, Roman Catholic Jesuit Priest and English Martyr, he was offered his life if he would take the oath, but he steadfastly refused, and was executed at the age of 32. Feastday June 23

23rd June 
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St. Alban - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Alban, Roman Catholic and the first martyr of England, his own country (homeland).. What remained of Alban's relics were scattered in the time of the Dissolution. Feastday June 22

St. Thomas More - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Thomas More, Roman Catholic English Martyr, (Patron of Lawyers), He was sentenced to be hanged, drawn, and quartered (the usual punishment for traitors who were not the nobility), but the King commuted this to execution by decapitation. Feastday June 22

St. John Fisher - Saints St. John Fisher, Roman Catholic Cardinal and English Martyr, condemned to be hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn. King Henry commuted the sentence to that of beheading, Fisher's head was stuck upon a pole on London Bridge. Feastday June 22

St. John Rigby - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. John Rigby, Roman Catholic English Martyr, He was hanged, drawn, and quartered at Southwark , Feastday June 21

22nd June - 

Saint John Fisher and Saint Thomas More - Independent Catholic News

Bl. William Harcourt - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. William Harcourt, Roman Catholic Jesuit Priest and English Martyr, executed at Tyburn with five other Jesuits. Feastday June 20

Bl. Thomas Whitbread - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. Thomas Whitbread Roman Catholic Jesuit Priest and English Martyr, he was hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn. Feastday June 20

Bl. John Fenwick & John Gavan - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bls. John Fenwick & John Gavan Roman Catholic Jesuit  Priests and English Martyrs.  They  were falsely charged with complicity in the Titus Qates Plot hysteria, and put to death at Tyburn with three Jesuit companions. Feastday June 20

17 Irish Martyrs - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online 17 Irish Roman Catholic Martyrs were dozens of people who have been sanctified in varying degrees for dying for their Roman Catholic faith between 1537 and 1714 in Ireland. Feastday June 20

Bl. Conor O�Devany - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. Conor O’Devany, Roman Catholic Bishop and Irish Martyr.  Bishop O'Devany was taken by the English authorities to a scaffold in Dublin to be executed on a trumped-up charge of treason. Having been offered a pardon at his trial if he would deny his faith, he had answered that he was resolved to die in defense of the Catholic faith. On the way to the scaffold, the bishop said to a priest facing martyrdom together with him (Blessed Patrick O'Loughran), "Come, my brave comrade, noble soldier of Christ, let us imitate as best we can the death of him who was led to the slaughter as the sheep before the shearer." As the bishop passed through Dublin's streets, Catholics emerged from their homes to kneel in reverence to their prelate. Following Bishop O'Devany's execution, a paralytic who had crawled to the scaffold to venerate his body was instantaneously cured. Feastday June 20

Bl. Anthony Turner - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. Anthony Turner, Roman Catholic English Martyr, he was hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn . Feastday June 20

20th June - 
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Bl. Sebastian Newdigate - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. Sebastian Newdigate, Roman Catholic Monk and English Martyr hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn. Feastday June 19

Bl. Humphrey Middlemore - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. Humphrey Middlemore, Roman Catholic Monk and English Martyr hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn. Feastday June 19

Bl. William Exmew - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. William Exmew,  Roman Catholic Monk and English Martyr, refused to accept the reforms of King Hemy VIII , William was executed with Blesseds Sebastian Newdigate and Humphrey Middlemore, condemned to death as traitors, and were hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn. Feastday June 19

Bl. Thomas Woodhouse - Saints Bl. Thomas Woodhouse, Roman Catholic Jesuit Priest and English Martyr. A resident of Lincolnshire, he received ordination as a secular priest and took up a post there. Forced to resign from this post, he became a tutor in Wales. He was arrested in 1561 for celebrating a Mass and was sent to Fleet Prison. During the period of his incarceration, which lasted twelve years, he entered the Society of Jesus Thomas was tried in 1570. He was hanged at Tyburn. Feastday June 19

Bl. William Greenwood - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. William Greenwood, Roman Catholic Monk and English Martyr, Carthusian martyr of England. A lay brother in the Carthusian London Charterhouse, he was arrested for opposing the policies of King Henry VIII (r. 1509-1547) and starved to death in Newgate Prison with six companions. Feastday June 16

Bls. Thomas Green, Thomas Scryven, and Thomas Reding - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bls. Thomas Green, Thomas Scryven, and Thomas Reding, Roman Catholic English Carthusian martyrs.  Arrested for opposing King Henry VIII's (r. 1509-1547) claim of spiritual supremacy over the English Church, Thomas was imprisoned with two other Carthusians, the lay brothers Thomas Scryven and Thomas Reding, and four other companions. All were starved to death at Newgate. Feastday June 15

St. William of York - Saints St. William of York, Roman Catholic Priest and Bishop of York, England. Feastday June 8

St. Willibald - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Willibald  Roman Catholic Bishop and missionary. A native of Wessex, England, he met Pope St. Gregory III (r. 731-741), who sent him to Germany to assist his cousin St. Boniface  Feastday June 7

Bl. Walter Pierson - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. Walter Pierson, Roman Catholic Carthusian Monk and English Martyr, With six other Carthusians, he was starved to death in prison by English authorities for opposing the religious policies of King Henry VIII. Feastday June6

Bl. Robert Salt - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. Robert Salt, Roman Catholic Carthusian Monk and English Martyr, starved to death in Newgate Prison with six Carthusian companions after they resisted his Dissolution of the Monasteries. Feastday June 6

BL. John Davy - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. John Davy, Roman Catholic Carthusian Monk and English Martyr, starved to death in Newgate Prison with six Carthusian companions. Feastday June6