English Speaking Saints And Martyrs

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 
- Saint Etheldreda, also known as St Audrey - Independent Catholic News

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 - 
 Saint Alban - Independent Catholic News The first martyr of Britain.

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

5th June - Saint Boniface - Independent Catholic News

St. Breaca - Saints St. Breaca, Roman Catholic Nun and Irish Missionary. Disciple of St. Brigid, She went from Ireland to Cornwall, England, about 460. There Breaca and her companions settled on the bank of the Hoyle River. Feastday June 2

Bl. John Storey - Saints Bl. John Storey, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr, executed at Tyburn by being hanged, drawn and quartered on 1 June .Feastday June 1