English Speaking Saints And Martyrs

Bl. Thomas Johnson - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online 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

Bl. Ralph Corby - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online 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.

Bl. John Duckett Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr. Arrested and martyred on September 7 at Tyburn with Blessed Ralph Corby. They were hanged, drawn, and quartered. Feastday, September 7 Bl. John Duckett - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online

7th September: Blessed John Duckett and Blessed Ralph Corby - Independent Catholic News Blessed John Duckett and Blessed Ralph Corby Roman Catholic English Martyrs, Feastday Sept 7

Bl.Teresa of Calcutta - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl.Teresa of Calcutta, Roman Catholic Nun, Feastday Sept 5

Bl. William Browne - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online 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

Bl. Richard Bere - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online 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. Feastday Aug 31

St. Pelagius, Arsenius, and Sylvanus - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Pelagius, Arsenius, and Sylvanus, Martyrs in Spain, they were hermits who resided in the area around Burgos, in Old Castile, who were put to death by Muslim Moors. Feastday Aug 30 St. Pelagius of Cordova, Martyr in Cordoba, Spain. Also called Pelayo, he was a young boy of Asturias who was left by his uncle as a hostage to the Moors of Cordoba. As he remained un-ransomed for three years, the Cordoban ruler Emir Abd al-Rahman III offered to free him if he would but renounce his Christianity and become a Muslim. He refused, and the emir ordered him tortured. Pelagius died after six hours of agony. Rhoswitha of Gandersheim, a Benedictine poetess, composed a poem in his honor. Feastday Aug 30

St. Richard Martin - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Richard Martin, Roman Catholic English Martyr, a devout Catholic. Arrested for giving shelter to priests, he was hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn with Blesseds Richard Leigh, Edward Shelley, John Roche, Richard Flowers, and St. Margaret Ward. 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 Tyburn. Feastday Aug 30

Bl. Edward Shelley - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. Edward Shelley, Roman Catholic English Martyr, He sheltered priests and was hung at Tyburn. Feastday Aug 30

Bl. Richard Herst - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. Richard Herst, Roman Catholic English Martyr, hanged at Lancaster on August 29 because of his refusal to deny Catholicism. He was offered his freedom if he took the Oath of Supremacy but declined. Feastday Aug 29

Bl. Hugh More - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online 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

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

Bl. Thomas Felton - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. Thomas Felton, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr, hanged at lsleworth, London. Feastday Aug 28

Bl. Thomas Holford - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. Thomas Holford, Roman Catholic English Martyr. Raised a Protestant, he worked as a schoolmaster in Herefordshire until converting to the Catholic faith. He left England and was ordained at Reims in 1583. Going home, he labored in the areas around Cheshire and London until his arrest. He was hanged at Clerkenwell in London. Feastday Aug 28

St. Edmund Arrowsmith - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online 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 & Margaret Ward - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online 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. Feastday Aug 28

Bl. William Dean - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. William Dean, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr, originally a minister who was converted to Catholicism, executed in Nile End Green, London. Feastday Aug 28

Bl. William Guntei - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online 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

St. Margaret the Barefooted - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online St. Margaret the Barefooted-Roman Catholic Laywoman Wife and model of charity. She was born into a poor family at San Severino, Ancona, Italy. Married at fifteen, she suffered through ill treatment from her husband with prayer, while begging alms for the poor and sick. She walked as barefooted as the lowliest beggar. Feastday Aug 27 Patron of brides, difficult marriages, victims of abuse, widows