Bl. Peter Wright, Roman Catholic English Jesuit Martyr May 19

Bl. Peter Wright, Roman Catholic English Jesuit Martyr, Wright was condemned under the statute 27 Eliz., c. 2. for being a Catholic priest in England, and sentenced on Saturday 17 May to being hanged, drawn and quartered. His execution at Tyburn, London on a hot Whit Monday, 19 May 1651, took place before over twenty thousand spectators. In the period of the trial and the days after his execution, Wright was if not popular, at least a respected figure in public opinion. The sheriff's officers also seem to have been relatively well disposed to him and he was allowed to hang until he was dead, being thus spared the agonies of being eviscerated alive.
Peter Wright was beatified by Pope Pius XI on 15 December 1929. His feast day is 19 May.