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One Hundred And Seven Martyrs Of England And Wales
One Hundred and Seven Martyrs of England and Wales, also known as Thomas Hemerford and One Hundred and Six Companion Martyrs, are a group of clergy and laypersons who were executed on charges of treason and related offences in the Kingdom of England between 1541 and 1680. They are considered Christian martyrs, martyrs in the Roman Catholic Church and were beatification, beatified on 15 December 1929 by Pope Pius XI. List of individual names They were chosen from a number of Priesthood (Catholic Church), priests and laymen executed between 1584 and 1679. at Hagiography Circle Diocesan Clergy # John Larke, John Ireland (died 7 March 1544) # Thomas Hemerford (c.1553 - 12 February 1584) # James Fenn (c.1540 - 12 February 1584) # John Nutter (martyr), John Nutter (died 12 February 1584) # ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Gonson
David Gonson (1510 – 12 July 1541), also known as David Gunston, was a Knight of Malta and Catholic martyr of the English Reformation. Life Sir David Gonson was born in Deptford, Kent, the son of William Gonson and his wife Bennett Walter. His was a naval family, with his father serving as a Vice-Admiral and well connected with the nobility. His father had been born in Melton Mowbray and his uncle, Bartholomew, served as a priest there, during which time he erected the Gonson Memorial in the church paying tribute to his parents. David Gonson was received into the Order of Malta at the English Auberge in Valletta on 20 October 1533. He served on board ships of the Order in the Mediterranean until 1540 when he returned to England. As part of the actions taken during the Reformation, the Order was suppressed in England by King Henry VIII on 10 May 1540. Gonson refused to recognise the authority of the king in spiritual matters. The writ against him claimed that in Malta "He de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Aufield
Thomas Aufield (1552 – 6 July 1585), also called Thomas Alfield, was an English Roman Catholic martyr. He was born in Gloucestershire and educated at Eton College and King's College, Cambridge. He then converted to Roman Catholicism and in September 1576 went to the English College at Douai, France, but suspecting danger returned to England in November. In September 1580 Aufield returned to the English College, by then at Rheims. He was ordained a priest on 4 March 1581 at Châlons-sur-Marne and later that month set out for the English Mission. He seems to have mostly operated in the North, where he was arrested on 2 May 1582. He was imprisoned in the Tower of London, where he apostatized under torture, returning to Protestantism. Released on bond, he then returned to Gloucester. By the following April he was again at Rheims, and having returned to Catholicism around the beginning of Michaelmas term visited his brother-in-law in Aldersgate Street, London. Around this time he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Campion
The Oaten Hill Martyrs were Catholic Martyrs who were executed by hanging, drawing and quartering at Oaten Hill, Canterbury, on 1 October 1588. The gallows had been put up in 1576. These four were beatified by Pope Pius XI in 1929.Oaten Hill Martyrs Robert Wilcox Robert Wilcox was born in in 1558 and entered the seminary at when he was twenty-five years old and was ordained on 20 April 1585.[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Way
William Way (alias May, alias Flower) (died 1588) was an English Catholic priest and martyr executed under Elizabeth I after the Protestant Reformation. He is venerated in the Roman Catholic Church. Early life and education William Way was born in the Diocese of Exeter about c. 1560. Bishop Richard Challoner said he was born in Cornwall, and earlier authorities say in Devonshire. Since the Protestant Reformation had closed Catholic seminaries in England, Way went to France to study. On 31 March 1584, he received his first tonsure in the Cathedral of Reims from the Cardinal of Guise. On 22 March he was ordained subdeacon, on 5 April deacon, and priest on 18 September 1586, at Laon, probably by Bishop Valentine Douglas (''Valentine Duglas''), O.S.B. Career Way departed for England on 9 December 1586, and by June 1587, was imprisoned. He was indicted at Newgate in September 1588, for being a Roman Catholic priest. He declined to be tried by a secular judge, whereupon the Bisho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Leigh (martyr)
Richard Leigh (c. 1557 – 1588) was an English Roman Catholic martyr born in Cambridge, the scion of Cheshire gentry, squires of the West Hall, High Legh since the 11th century. Life Richard Leigh was the son of Richard Leigh, who attended Cambridge University, and Clemence Holcroft, daughter of Sir John Holcroft. He was the subject of a childhood arranged marriage at Middleton, 22 September 1562 with Anne Belfield (married in 1574 William Assheton, steward of the manor of Rochdale), daughter of Ralph Belfield, of Clegg Hall, who had died without a male heir in 1552. Her sister, Elizabeth, was married on the same day to Alexander Barlow (later Sir Alexander Barlow) and both marriages were subsequently annulled on the grounds of being so young that "doth not remember that he ever was marryed." Leigh attended Shrewsbury School before studying divinity at Reims and at Rome, where he was ordained in 1586. He returned to England but before reaching Cheshire, was arre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Claxton
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Thomas Holford
Thomas Holford (sometimes called Thomas Acton) (1541–1588) was an English Protestant schoolteacher who became a Catholic priest during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. He was martyred at Clerkenwell in London, and is recognised by the Catholic Church as having the status of '' Blessed''. Early life Thomas Holford, the son of a minister, was born in 1541 near Nantwich, Cheshire, at Aston'The Seminary Priests', Godfrey Anstruther, published by St Edmund's College, Ware and Ushaw College, Durham, 1968, entry for Thomas Holford in the parish of Acton.Nine Martyrs of the Shrewsbury Diocese by Kevin Byrne, accessed 7 November 2012 He was raised as a Protestant and became a schoolteacher. He moved to |
William Gunter (martyr)
William Gunter (died 28 August 1588) was a Roman Catholic priest who was martyred under Queen Elizabeth I during the aftermath of the Spanish Armada, and is one of the One Hundred and Seven Martyrs of England and Wales. He was beatified in 1929 by Pope Pius XI. History William Gunter was from Raglan in Monmouthshire. He studied in Reims, France, where he was ordained in 1587. He was martyred in Lincoln's Inn Fields on 28 August 1588 under the persecutions of Queen Elizabeth I. See also * List of Catholic martyrs of the English Reformation The Catholic martyrs of the English Reformation are men and women executed under treason legislation in the English Reformation, between 1534 and 1680, and recognised as martyrs by the Catholic Church. Though consequences of the English Ref ... References 1588 deaths People executed under Elizabeth I People from Monmouthshire 16th-century Welsh Roman Catholic priests English beatified people One Hundred and Seven Mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Dean (priest)
William Dean or Deane (died 28 August 1588) was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is one of the Catholic martyrs, beatified in 1929. Life Son of Thomas B. of Grassington West Riding of Yorkshire William Dean attended schools in Leeds and Clitheroe. Dean was matriculated sizar from Magdalene College, Cambridge in 1575 and was admitted pensioner at Caius College, Cambridge in November 1577, aged 20. He then became a minister. In 1581, he was reconciled to the Catholic faith by the seminary priest Thomas Alfield.Dunn, Henry E., "Venerable William Dean", ''Lives of the English Martyrs'' (Edwin Hubert Burton and John Hungerford Pollen,eds.) Longmans, Green and Co., 1914, 351. That same year he studied at the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
