English Speaking Saints And Martyrs

t. 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, 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

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Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Last Words: Blessed Thomas Holland, SJ : Executed at Tyburn on December 12, 1642 after a contentious trial, during the reign of Charles I, he spoke to a large crowd and sympat...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Blessed Thomas Holland, SJ: Acts of Faith, Hope an... : From  The Jesuit Curia  in Rome: Thomas Holland (1600-1642) suffered from poor health during the whole of the seven years he spent in acti...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Catherine Palmer, Abbess of Syon Abbey, RIP : Catherine Palmer, the last abbess of Syon Abbey, died in exile on December 19, 1576. She had confronted a Calvinist mob in Mechelin (today...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: All Hopes for Amendment Dashed: Henry VIII's Excom... : On December 17, 1538, Henry VIII was formally and publicly excommunicated: Bull against Hen. VIII., renewing the execution of the bull ...

English Historical Fiction Authors: The London Plague 1665 : By Brindy Wilcox Two major events  happened in the winter of 1664. Firstly, there were sightings of a large comet over London, on which ...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Belloc on the English Gardiner and the Spanish Mar... : Anna Mitchell and I will continue our discussion of Hilaire Belloc's Characters of the Reformation tomorrow morning. I hope you are ...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Blessed Arthur Bell, One of 85 : According to the Catholic Encyclopedia : Friar Minor and English martyr, b. at Temple-Broughton near Worcester, 13 January, 1590; d. at Lo...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Seven Martyrs at Tyburn and Gray's Inn : Seven English Catholic martyrs suffered brutal execution on December 10, 1591: three priests and four laymen, while one woman, wife/widow ...

Bl. Thomas Somers, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr. Arrested for being a priest, he was hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn with Blessed John Roberts.

St. Edmund Genings, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr and was hanged, drawn and quartered. Feastday dec 10

Bl. John Mason, Roman Catholic Layman and English Martyr. hanged, drawn, and quartered with Sts. Edmund Gennings, Palydore Plasden. and Blessed Sidney Hodgson. Feastday Dec.10 St. Polydore Plasden, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr. hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn. Feastday Dec.10 St. Eustace White, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr, hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn. Feastday Dec.10 Bl. Thomas Somers, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr. Arrested for being a priest, he was hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn with Blessed John Roberts. Feastday Dec.10 St. Julia of Merida, Roma Catholic Martyr of Merida, Spain. She died with St. Eulalia in Merida for the faith.Feastday Dec.10

St. Eustace White, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr, hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn. Feastday Dec. 10

St. Polydore Plasden, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr. hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn.  Feastday Dec. 10

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

Bl. Edward Coleman, Roman Catholic layman and English Martyr. He was executed at Tyburn. Feastday Dec.2

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Blessed Richard Langley, Executed in York : John Hungerford Pollen, SJ writes about today's martyr in his Acts of the English Martyrs : Richard Longley [Langley], Esq., was t...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Mourning Mourne Abbey and Father O'Shea : Our diocese of Wichita, Kansas was blessed by the emigration of several Irish priests to serve in our parishes in the 1950's. As the y...

Bl. Richard Langley Roman Catholic English Martyr, hanged, drawn, and quartered. Feastday Dec.1

Bl. John Beche, Roman Catholic Benedictine English Martyr, tortured and then hanged, drawn, and quartered. Feastday Dec.1

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. Alexander Briant, Roman Catholic Jesuit Priest and English Martyr, tortured and then hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn. Feastday Dec 1

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: The Protomartyr: St. Cuthbert Mayne : St. Cuthbert Mayne is the protomartyr of the seminary priests trained on the Continent who returned to England as missionaries. He was ...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Blessed Richard Langley, Executed in York : John Hungerford Pollen, SJ writes about today's martyr in his Acts of the English Martyrs : Richard Longley [Langley], Esq., was t...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Belloc Sums Up Clement and Cranmer : Anna Mitchell and I will be talking about Hilaire Belloc's chapters on Pope Clement VII and Archbishop Thomas Cranmer in Characters of...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Belloc on Pope Clement and Archbishop Cranmer : It's time again to prepare for my every-other week discussion of Hilaire Belloc's Characters of the Reformation with Anna Mitchell ...

Bl. James Thompson, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr. He was hanged at York. Feastday Nov. 28

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Tunstall's "Passive Obedience" : Cuthbert Tunstall, the former Bishop of Durham, who refused to take Elizabeth I's Oath of Supremacy, died under house arrest at Lambe...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Belloc on Cromwell's Sudden Fall; More's Extraordi... : Just a reminder that Anna Mitchell and I will be discussing Hilaire Belloc's views of Thomas Cromwell and St. Thomas More this morni...

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 Nov15

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

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

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: A Tale of Two Thomases: Belloc on Cromwell and Mor... : Tomorrow morning, Anna Mitchell and I will continue our discussion of Hilaire Belloc's Characters of the Reformation on the Son Rise ...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Sir Philip Sidney and St. Edmund Campion : Sir Philip Sidney, courtier, diplomat, poet, and soldier, is known as the great champion of Elizabethan, Protestant England. But he had ...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Peter Wentworth, RIP in the Tower : Peter Wentworth, MP for Northampton, argued often on matters of Church and State in Elizabethan Parliaments. He also ended up in prison fo...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Belloc in the Morning: Mourning Two Queens : Just a reminder that Anna Mitchell and I will talk about Belloc's views of Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn as Characters of the Refo...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Belloc on Henry VIII's First Two Wives : Tomorrow (a little after 6:45 a.m. Central/7:45 a.m. Eastern) on the Son Rise Morning Show , Anna Mitchell and I will continue our discuss...

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

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, 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. 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 24

St. John Roberts, Roman Catholic Benedictine Priest and English Martyr. With Blessed Thomas Somers, he was hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn. Feastday Oct 24

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. Oct 24

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

St. Jean de Brebeuf, Roman Catholic Jesuit Priest and Martyr of New France. & Cartier claims New France for France

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: St. Philip Howard and His Dog : Please check this link today for my post at the National Catholic Register blog site on St. Philip Howard, who died a martyr in chains on ...

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

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: The "Battle" for Evensong : BBC Four is advertising a programme to be broadcast on October 17 hosted by Lucy Worsley with the title "Elizabeth I's Battle for...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Suppressed But Not Defeated: the Benedictines of E... : As James Kelly writes in The Catholic Herald of the Benedictine Order in England after the Dissolution of the Monasteries: The signifi...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: St. Bruno and the English Carthusian Martyrs : I have often  posted  about the Carthusian Order and its English Reformation martyrs on this blog. Today we celebrate the feast of the ...

Bl. William Hartley, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr. He was an Anglican minister before his conversion to Catholicism. Going to Reims, France, he received ordination in 1580 and went back to the English mission to aid St. Edmund Campion. William was hanged at Shoreditch. Oct 5

Bl. Robert Sutton, Roman Catholic English Martyr. He was an Anglican minister before his conversion to Catholicism. In 1575, he converted and went to Douai, France. He returned to England and was arrested in London and hanged at Clerkenwell. Oct 5

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Belloc in the Morning on the Son Rise Morning Show... : Annie Mitchell and I will start a series this morning on the Son Rise Morning Show, discussing Hilaire Belloc's Characters of the R...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Father Weston, SJ and St. Philip Howard : On September 30, 1584, Father William Weston, SJ received Sir Philip Howard, the Earl of Arundel into the Catholic Church. According to ...

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

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

Bl. Robert Widmerpool. Roman Catholic English Martyr. He was arrested for giving aid to a Catholic priest. Robert was executed by being hanged, drawn, and quartered at Canterbury with Blessed Robert Wilcox. Feastday Oct 1

St. Ralph Crockett, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr. Ralph was martyred at Chichester by being hanged, drawn, and quartered. Oct 1

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Father Weston, SJ and St. Philip Howard : On September 30, 1584, Father William Weston, SJ received Sir Philip Howard, the Earl of Arundel into the Catholic Church. According to ...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: September 29, 1850: Universalis Ecclesiae : "Am I the Queen of England or am I not?"  So said Queen Victoria when news of the Restoration of the English Catholic hierarchy...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Happy Feast of Our Lady of Walsingham : EWTN, the late Mother Angelica's Catholic media empire, has just opened a studio in England at the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham. T...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: England's Bloody Reformation : Peter Marshall writes for the BBC History Magazine (May 2017 issue): . . . Recent scholarship on the changes taking place after Henry ...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Chidiock Tichborne to His Wife : Margaret Bowen collected Some Famous Love Letters , published in 1937 and included Chidiock Tichborne's to his wife, written the n...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Book Review: Sons of Saint Patrick : The Faith and Reason Institute sent me a review copy of Sons of Saint Patrick: A History of the Archbishops of New York, from Dagger John ...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Novena to Our Lady of Walsingham : The Catholic Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham has published a novena to start today in preparation for the feast on September 24 (which...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Catholic Continental Ambitions : This book is on my wish list. Stefan McDaniel reviews it for First Things (access may be limited, unless you are a subscriber): In his...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Sir Thomas Tresham, RIP : In a paper about the Catholic recusants who were held in the Bishops Palace at Ely during the reign of Elizabeth I, Francis Young comment...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: St. Ambrose Barlow, OSB and the Barlows of Barlow : According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, today's martyr was b. at Barlow Hall, 1585; d. 10 September, 1641. He was the fourth son of S...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Persuading to Popery: Blessed George Douglas : One of the 85 Martyrs of England and Wales: In his earlier years,  George Douglas ,  of Edinburgh, Scotland, worked as a schoolmaster in the...

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

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Another Recusant Scholar : From   I News : They were monks who disavowed worldly possessions and are best known for their monastic scholarship and abstinence.  ...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Recusant Studies's Rising Scholars : History Today asked Jessie Childs 20 questions and one of them was: Q. What’s the most exciting field in history today? A. Recusant his...

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.

Bl. Edward Shelley, Roman Catholic English Martyr, He sheltered priests and was hung at Tyburn. 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 Tybum. Feastday Aug.30 St. Richard Martin, Roman Catholic English Martyr, a devout Catholic. Arrested for giving shelter to priests, he was hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tybum with Blesseds Richard Leigh, Edward Shelley, John Roche, Richard Flowers, and St. Margaret Ward. Feastday Aug.30                   

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Venerable Mary Ward: Ahead of Her Time : Mary Ward, English nun and recusant, died on January 30, 1645. She was declared Venerable by Pope Benedict XVI in 2009, according to this ...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: St. Margaret Ward and Companions : I talked with Anna Mitchell on the Son Rise Morning Show yesterday and she will repeat the interview early this morning during the natio...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Blessed Richard Herst : This martyr, a farmer with a family, was a public recusant in Lancashire. He was executed on August 29 in 1628 after a rigged trial.  Ac...

Bl. Richard Herst, Roman Catholic English Martyr, hanged at Lancaster on August 29 because of his refusal to deny Catholicism. Feastday Aug.29

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 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

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

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

Bl. Thomas Felton, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr, hanged at lsleworth, London. Feastday

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

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: St. Edmund Arrowsmith, SJ : Today's English Catholic Martyr was raised in a recusant family and suffered much for his Catholic faith and his priesthood. Executed...

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

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