Edward Stransham (c. 1557 at

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Wainewright, John Bannerman. "Venerable Edward Stransham", ''Lives of the English Martyrs'', (Edwin H. Burton and J. H. Pollen eds.), London. Longmans, Green and Co., 1914
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) was an English

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priest. He is a Catholic martyr,

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in 1929.

Life

Edward Stransham was born at Oxford around 1557. He was educated at

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, becoming B.A. in 1575-6. He arrived at

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in 1577, and went with the college to

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in 1578, but returned to England due to illness. In 1579, however, he returned to Reims with four potential students, and was ordained priest at

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in December 1580. Although ill he left for England 30 June 1581, as it was thought his native air might do him good. With him went fellow priest Nicholas Woodfen, of the London Diocese, ordained priest at Reims, 25 March 1581. In 1583 Stransham came back to Reims with ten Oxford converts. After five months there he went to Paris, where he remained about eighteen months at death's door from

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. He was arrested in Bishopsgate Street Without, London, 17 July 1585, while saying Mass, and was condemned at the next assizes for being a priest. He was hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn. His beatification took place in 1929, under Pope Pius XI.

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Attribution * The entry cites: **Wainewright in ''Downside Review'' (1911) {{DEFAULTSORT:Stransham, Edward 1554 births 1586 deaths English beatified people 16th-century venerated Christians 16th-century English Roman Catholic priests People from Oxford One Hundred and Seven Martyrs of England and Wales

Life

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