English Speaking Saints And Martyrs

Bl. William Ireland - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. William Ireland, Roman Catholic Jesuit Priest and English Martyr. He was executed at Tyburn for supposed complicity in the Popish Plot.

23rd January - Venerable 

Mary Ward - Independent Catholic News : Today marks the anniversary of the birth of of Mary Ward, whose cause for Beatification is underway at the Vatican. She was born in 1585, into a family of Yorkshire recusants, outlaw Catholics refusing to conform to the state religion. Condemned to death in London for her work among underground Catholics, she fled to the continent with a group of companions in 1609, believing herself called to start a religious order for women

Bl. William Patenson - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. William Patenson, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr. Hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn on January 21, 1642. Feastday January 22

St. Alban Bartholomew Roe - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Alban Bartholomew Roe, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr. For seventeen years he remained in prison and was then tried and condemned. Alban was sentenced with Thomas Reynolds, another English martyr. They were hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn on January 21, 1642.

Bl. Edward Stransham - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. Edward Stransham, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr. Hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn on January 21, 1642. Feastday January 21

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Abbot Richard Beere and Two Martyrs : Richard Beere or Bere, the penultimate abbot of Glastonbury Abbey, died on January 20, 1524. According to the Dictionary of National Bio...

19th January - Saint Wulfstan - Independent Catholic News : Benedictine monk and bishop of Worcester. St Wulfstan was born of Anglo Saxon parents in 1008 at Itchington in Warwickshire. Educated at the abbeys of Evesham and Peterborough, he excelled in piety and sport. After he was ordained priest he was offered a richly endowed church but refused it. Instead he became a Benedictine monk at Worcester cathedral priory. He soon became master of the boys, cantor and sacristan.

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Pre-Order Now and Read an Excerpt : Bloomsbury has sent out a notice about the imminent release of Eamon Duffy's contribution to the Reformation's 500th anniversa...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Mary's Eulogizer, Bishop John White, RIP : John White, the deprived Bishop of Winchester, died on January 12, 1560. He was in and out of prison during the Tudor era, according t...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Publisher of Catholic Books: Blessed William Carte... : Today's English Catholic martyr's story reveals some of the debates and conflicts between Catholics during the Elizabethan era. Th...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Sir Geoffrey Pole, in the Tower : According to the Tudor Society Blog, on October 26 in 1538, "Geoffrey Pole, brother of Cardinal Reginald Pole and son of Margaret P...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Montagu and Exeter Executed : On January 9, 1539, Henry Pole, Baron Montagu and Henry Courtenay, Marquess of Exeter were beheaded on Tower Hill, victims of the so-calle...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Blessed Edward Waterson: From Turkey to Newcastle ... : Today's martyr was a world traveler before he finally returned to England was a missionary priest and then suffered imprisonment and m...

Bl. Edward Waterson - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. Edward Waterson, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr, he was hanged, drawn and quartered, Feastday January 7

St. Peter of Canterbury - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Peter of Canterbury, Roman Catholic Monk, from Rome’s Benedictine abbey of Saint Andrew who accompanied Saint Augustine of Canterbury on his missionary journey to England in 597. Feastday January 6

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: A Martyr of the Northern Rebellion : Blessed Thomas Plumtree, formerly of Corpus Christi College at Oxford, served as chaplain to the Northern Rising of Thomas Percy, Earl of ...

Bl. Thomas Plumtree - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. Thomas Plumtree, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr. He was offered his freedom if he abjured the faith and he refused. He was hanged in Durham Castle. Feastday January 4