English Speaking Saints And Martyrs

https://www.indcatholicnews.com/saint/366 St Egwin Dec. 30

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: 2020: 850th Anniversary of St. Thomas a Becket's M... : Since this is Sunday, the solemnities of the Christmas Octave (Feast of the Holy Family in the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite; Sunday du...

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. Dec.29

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Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: A Delayed Coronation: Elizabeth of York : Henry VII delayed not only his wedding to Elizabeth of York, daughter of Edward IV, until after his coronation (on October 30, 1485), but...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Two New Oratories in England : Last weekend at the Spiritual Life Center I mentioned how the Oratory movement that St. John Henry Newman had brought to England was flour...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Catholic Emancipation via Antonia Fraser : This book is coming out in paperback now so the hardcover is well-priced. I read it as some background for final preparation of my second ...

St. Edmund, Roman Catholic English King and Martyr, he refused the Danes' demand that he renounce Christ: the Danes beat him, shot him with arrows and then beheaded him.Nov. 20

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

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Catholic Emancipation via Antonia Fraser : This book is coming out in paperback now so the hardcover is well-priced. I read it as some background for final preparation of my second ...

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St. Hilda of Whitby or Hild of Whitby (c. 614–680) is a Roman Catholic saint and the founding abbess of the monastery at Whitby, which was chosen as the venue for the Synod of Whitby. An important figure in the conversion of England to The Holy Roman Catholic Church, she was abbess at several monasteries and recognized for the wisdom that drew kings to her for advice. Feastday: Nov. 17

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. 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. Nov. 15

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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

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Father Vincent Blehl, SJ RIP : Father Vincent Ferrer Blehl, SJ died on November 14, 2001. As this obituary in The Independent ,  noted, his life and academic career had ...

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"There is only one tragedy in the end, not to have been a saint."  - Leon Bloy How to Become a Saint 1,2,3, : 1) repent of your sins and forgive others. 2) Love and Live free of sin. 3) Pray

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. Nov 10

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Newman Memories on the Ides of November : “My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one grey morning of war-time. These memories, which are my life—for we possess ...

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Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: The North of England and the South of the USA : From History Today : In his 1989 book Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America, the historian David Hackett Fischer explained how...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Remember, Remember the Fifth of November : Anna Mitchell asked me yesterday to talk about Guy Fawkes Day this morning on the Son Rise Morning Show , so Matt Swaim and I will discus...

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

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: The Saint and the Hero: Newman's Journey : O  AGED  Saint! far off I heard     The praises of thy name;— Thy deed of power, thy prudent word,     Thy zeal's triumphant fla...

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. 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". Oct 29

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: The Decollation of Sir Walter Raleigh : The History website tells us why Sir Walter Raleigh was beheaded on October 29, 1618: He was a celebrated soldier, a hero on land and se...

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Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: A Hidden Head of St. Christopher : When old Catholic churches that are now Church of England parishes are renovated and restored, some surprises may occur. The parish church...

St. Alfred the Great-Roman Catholic King of England- Feastday October 26

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. 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. Oct 25

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.

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

https://www.indcatholicnews.com/saint/308 St Antônio de Sant'Anna Galvão Franciscan priest. Brazil's first native-born saint. Antônio was one of 11 children born in Guarantingueta near São Paulo, Brazil, Antônio attended the Jesuit seminary in Belem but later decided to become a Franciscan friar. Invested in 1760, he made final profession the following year and was ordained in 1762. He served as preacher, confessor and porter in São Paulo and then chaplain to the Recollects of St Teresa, a group of nuns. Together with Sister Helena Maria of the Holy Spirit he founded a new community of sisters under the patronage of Our Lady of the Conception of Divine Providence. He was also novice master for the friars in Macacu and guardian of St Francis Friary in São Paulo. Fr Antônio founded St Clare Friary in Sorocaba. With the permission of his provincial and the bishop, he spent his last days at the Recolhimento de Nossa Senhora da Luz, the convent of the sisters' congregat

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Frederick Apthorp Paley and Father John Morris : I posted yesterday the story of Father John Morris, SJ, a convert to Catholicism influenced by Newman and other Anglicans becoming Catho...

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

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: "Render to God the things that are God's." : John Hungerford Pollen, SJ appropriately wrote the biography of Father John Morris, SJ, for the Catholic Encyclopedia : Canon, afterward...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Confessions, Surprises, and Apologies : On Saturday evening last,   Jessica Hooten Wilson , Associate Professor at John Brown University, presented "'Maddened Beauty&#39...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Father George Rutler on Saint John Henry Newman : Father George Rutler, who presented at a Newman School of Catholic Thought at the Newman Center in 1995 (the 150th anniversary of Saint J...

St, Phillip Howard Roman catholic english martyr, Oct 18

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

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.

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Tracey Rowland Searches for Newman's University : She searches for it, but doesn't find it very often. Speaking at the Newman the Prophet: A Saint for Our Times conference held at ...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: My Saint John Henry Newman Octave : Just as I prepared for the canonization Sunday with a Novena of Rosary decades and prayers, I am going to celebrate Newman's canoniza...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: St. John Henry Newman and Ireland : From Dermot Quinn, associate professor of history at Seton Hall University, in  First Things : Ireland has produced many saints, and Jo...

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Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Son Rise Morning Show "Santo Subito" Wrap Up : As promised, Matt Swaim and I will wrap up our Son Rise Morning Show Santo Subito series this morning at 7:50 a.m. Eastern/6:50 a.m. Cen...

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Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Will Newman Be Named a "Doctor of the Church" Toda... : Pope Pius IX granted Father John Henry Newman an honorary Doctorate in Divinity (D.D.) in 1850; Trinity College (his alma mater) named Doc...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Newman and the Four Women to be Canonized : Yesterday I mentioned that four women will be canonized with Newman tomorrow at St. Peter's Basilica--or that Newman will be canonized...

Bishop. St Wilfrid was born in Northumbria in 633, the son of a noble family. He was educated at Lindisfarne, and later studied at Canterbury and then Rome. He returned to become Abbot of Ripon and introduced the Rule of St Benedict and the Western, or Roman, method of calculating Easter. This had been introduced by Kentish missionaries like Paulinus but rejected by monks of Lindisfarne who stuck to the old Celtic system. At the Synod of Whitby, held in the monastery of monks and nuns presided over by St Hilda, in 663-4, his arguments for the calendar won. King Oswy, who opened the Synod, said that all who served one God should observe one rule of life. Wilfrid built many churches and monasteries around the country and fell in and out of favour with the royal families of the day. He died in 709, aged 76, at his monastery near Oundle, in Northamptonshire. The cult of Wilfrid centres on Ripon, where he was buried, and on Hexham, where his disciple Acca succeeded him as bishop and abbo

St. Damien of Molokai, Roman Catholic Priest and member of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, a missionary religious institute. he was sent to Honolulu, Hawaii, where he Was ordained. For the next nine years he worked in missions on the big island, Hawaii. In 1873, he went to the leper colony on Molokai, after volunteering for the assignment. Damien cared for lepers of all ages, but was particularly concerned about the children segregated in the colony. He announced he was a leper in 1885 and continued to build hospitals, clinics, and churches, and some six hundred coffins.Feastday Oct 11

The Model Priest for a Church in Crisis - Crisis Magazine : In his spiritual autobiography, Apologia pro Vita Sua, Blessed John Henry Newman informs us: “When I was fifteen (in the autumn of 1816), a great change of thought took place in me. I fell under the influences of a definite Creed, and received into my intellect impressions of dogma, which, through God’s mercy, have never …

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Preview: Post Canonization Commentary : Matt Swaim and I will wrap up our Son Rise Morning Show Santo Subito! series on Monday, October 14, at the usual time (7:50 a.m. Eastern/6...

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Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Newman's Feast and Canonization, 2019 : I was very happy to see all the events the Chaplain at Newman University here in Wichita is planning for this week leading up to Newman&#...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Blesseds Adams, and Dibsdale, and Rowe : Blessed John Adams, Blessed Robert Dibsdale, and Blessed John Lowe were beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1987 among the 85 Martyrs of ...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Cardinal Newman on the Rosary : Since today is the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary we thought it appropriate to discuss Newman and the Rosary on the Son Rise Morning Show...

B l. Adalbero, Roman Catholic Priest. A bishop and defender of papal authority who endured trials for his loyalty. Adalbero was the son of an Austrian count of Lambach and studied in Paris. He was named the bishop of Wurzberg, Germany, but was forced into exile after defending Pope Gregory VII against King Henry IV. Oct 6

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

Bl. Francis Xavier Seelos, Roman Catholic Priest and Redemptorist missionary in the USA. Oct 5

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: Preview: Newman and the Rosary : Since Monday, October 7 is the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, Matt Swaim and I will discuss Blessed John Henry Newman and the Rosary of ...

Sts. Ewald & Ewald, Martyred Northumbrian brothers, one called “the Fair” and one called “the Dark ,” companions of St. Willibrord. From Northumbria, they were educated in Ireland. These priests of the Benedictine Order went with Willibrord to Frisia, Netherlands. They were martyred together at Aplerbeke, near Dortmund, Germany, by local pagans. Oct 3

Saint Mother Théodore Guérin (1798–1856), designated by the Vatican as Saint Theodora, is the foundress of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, a congregation of Catholic nuns. Oct 3

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: St. Elizabeth Ann Seton's Nephew, RIP : St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, the Episcopalian convert to Catholicism and first native born canonized saint of the USA, had a nephew who like h...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: John Gother, Convert and Catechist, RIP : According to C. F. Wemyss Brown in the Catholic Encyclopedia , John Gother was a: Priest and controversialist; b. at Southampton, date...

St. Thomas of Hereford, Roman Catholic Priest and Bishop, a stern opponent of simony and all forms of secular encroachment upon his episcopal rights. Feastday Oct 2

St. Ralph Crockett, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr. Ralph was martyred at Chichester by being hanged, drawn, and quartered.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 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. Robert Wilcox, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr. Robert was arrested in Marshsea. He was hanged, drawn, and quartered with Blessed Robert Widmerpool at Canterbury. 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

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Novena to Prepare for Newman's Canonization : As the date of Newman's canonization nears, I wanted to make sure you knew about the Novena beginning this Friday, October 4, the feas...

St. Honorius of Canterbury, Roman Catholic Priest and  Archbishop of Canterbury, England, a native of Rome, sent to the British Isles by Pope St. Gregory I the Great. Honorius was a Benedictine who went to England at the request of St. Augustine of Canterbury. He succeeded to the see in 627. Honorius was consecrated by St. Paulinus, and he consecrated Sts. Felix and Ithamar, the first English born bishops. Honorius gave St. Paulinus refuge when he fled Caedwalla of Wales after the death of King Edwin. Feastday Sept. 30

Bl. Richard Rolle de Hampole, Roman Catholic English mystic and hermit.Yorkshire, England, circa 1300, he was educated at Oxford and in Paris from 1320-1326, before entering into the life of a hermit on the estate of a friend, John Dalton of Pickering in 1326. After several years of intense contemplation, he took to wandering across England, finally settling down at Hampole where he assisted the spiritual development of the nuns in a nearby Cistercian community. He died there on September 29. Richard was very well known and his writings widely read during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. He was one of the first religious writers to use the vernacular. A cult developed to promote his cause after miracles were reported at his tomb, although the cause was never officially pursued. His works include letters, scriptural commentaries, and treatises on spiritual perfection. Perhaps his best known writing was De Incendio Amoris. He also wrote a poem, Pricke of Conscience. Feastday Sept

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Dangerous to Be an Heir: Margaret Stanley, RIP : Margaret Stanley, Countess of Derby, who died on September 28, 1596, is another example of an heir to Elizabeth I who found out how danger...

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Bl. William Way, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr, He was executed at Kingston-on-Thames by being hanged, drawn, and quartered. Feastday Sept 23

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: This Morning: Blessed John Henry Newman and Miracl... : As promised, Matt Swaim and I will talk about Newman's thoughts on miracles, especially those performed by those who are acclaimed a...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Who Was Newman? and What to Read? : My Newman friend (we've never met but we've talked on the phone a few times and corresponded) Edward Short answers the first quest...

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

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Preview: Blessed John Henry Newman on Miracles : On Monday, September 23, Matt Swaim and I will talk about Blessed John Henry Newman and Miracles in our Santo Subito series on the  Son R...

St. Theodore of Tarsus, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Canterbury, England. He arrived at Canterbury in May 669 and Theodore moved immediately to consolidate his position as primate of England and the metropolitan status of the see of Canterbury. Sept.19

St. Edith of Wilton, was brought as a very young child to Wilton Abbey by her mother, who later became a nun there and Abbess. Edith became a nun when fifteen, declined her father's offer of three abbacies, and refused to leave the convent to become queen when her half-brother, King Edward the Martyr was murdered, as many of the nobles requested. She built St. Denis Church at Wilton. Her feast day is September 16.

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: King James II and VII, RIP : On September 16, 1701, the deposed King of England, Ireland and Scotland died in exile. John Callow, writing for the BBC History Magazine...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Father John Floyd, SJ, RIP--and his Brother Henry : According to Edwin Hubert Burton in the Catholic Encyclopedia , Father John Floyd, SJ , was a Catholic missionary in Recusant era Englan...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Barking Abbey and Its Female Scholars : From Eleanor Parker ( A Clerk of Oxford ) at History Today : ‘It is asked of all who hear this work that they do not revile it because a...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Jesuits Land in Virginia: A Spanish Mission : You might remember several years ago the news about graves found in the ruins of the Church of England chapel in the Jamestown Colony: the...

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.

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Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Preview: Gerontius and the Four Last Things : Matt Swaim and I will talk about Blessed John Henry Newman's great poem about the Four Last Things: Death, Judgement, Heaven, and Hell...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: One of Three Greats: Pope St. Gregory the First : Today is the feast of Pope St. Gregory the Great, born around the year 540 A.D., consecrated Pope on September 3, 590, and died on March 1...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Bishop of London, Edmund Bonner, RIP : Edmund Bonner, the former bishop of London (deposed by the authority of Elizabeth I), died in Marshalsea Prison on September 5, 1569. Ther...

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

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Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: One of Three Greats: Pope St. Gregory the First : Today is the feast of Pope St. Gregory the Great, born around the year 540 A.D., consecrated Pope on September 3, 590, and died on March 1...

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. Au g 31

Bl. Edward Shelley, Roman Catholic English Martyr, He sheltered priests and was hung at Tyburn. 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: August 30, 1588 and the Three Women Martyrs Among ... : There are two events to remember today. One is the execution of six Catholics--one laywoman, four laymen and one priest--in London as par...

Martyr. Margaret Clitherow was born in 1555, in Middleton, Yorkshire, into a Protestant family. Her father, Thomas Middleton, was Sheriff of York from 1564 to 1565. Margaret was married at the age of 15 to John Clitherow who had a thriving butchery trade; the couple had three children and lived in The Shambles. Although her husband remained a Protestant, Margaret converted to Roman Catholicism three years after their marriage, with his blessing. Henry, their son, trained as Catholic priest in France. This was a dangerous time for Roman Catholics; they were constantly pursued and persecuted. Being a fervent Catholic Margaret assisted both priests and fellow believers, by hiding them in her house. This extended to having a hole cut between the attics of her house and the neighbouring house, to allow for escape in case of a raid. Priests also celebrated secret Masses at her home. Eventually Margaret was discovered in her 'illegal' practices and was arrested. Standing before t