English Speaking Saints And Martyrs

Bl. Mark Barkworth, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr. He was the first English Benedictine martyr. With Father Richard Filcock he was hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn. Feastday February 27 

St. Anne Line, Roman Catholic Laywoman and English Martyr. She hid Catholic priests in a London safe house. In this endeavor she aided Jesuit Father John Gerard until her arrest. Anne was hanged at Tyburn. Feastday Feb 27 #England #USA #English #Saints  #Canterbury #kent

St Robert Southwell-Feb. 21Martyr, Jesuit priest, poet. St Robert was born in Horsham St Faith, Norfolk, in 1561 and spent much of his childhood in Sussex. He studied at Douai and Paris and wanted to be a priest from his earliest youth. In 1578, when he was barely 17, he was admitted to the Jesuit novitiate in Rome. After his ordination in 1584 he was appointed prefect of studies at the English College. Two years later he was sent to the English mission with fellow Jesuit Henry Garnett. They arrived a year after it had become high treason for a priest trained abroad to be in the country. Harbouring them was also a felony. Robert must have been well aware of the risk he was taking. The Jesuit priest Edmund Campion had been martyred three years earlier. On his arrival he attended a meeting at Hurleyford House in the Thames valley, which mapped out a new strategy for the survival of the Catholic Church in England. It was attended by the court composer William Byrd and several leadin...

Bl. John Pibush, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr. He was executed at Southwark. Feastday February 18

Bl. William Harrington, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr. Arrested in London in 1593 for being a priest, he was hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn. Feastday Feb 18

Bl. Thomas Hemerford, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr. Condemned for being a priest was hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn. Feastday February 12  Bl. James Feun, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr. He refused to take the Oath of Supremacy and named a conspirator of a bogus assassination plot. was hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn. Feastday Feb.12

Bl. William Richardson, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr, executed at Tyburn by being hanged, drawn, and quartered. He was the last martyr in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (r. 1558-1603). Feastday February 7.

Bl. John Nelson, Roman Catholic Jesuit Priest and English Martyr. He was arrested in London and martyred at Tyburn by being hanged, drawn, and quartered. Feastday February 3