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ST POLYDORE PLASDEN, PRIEST AND MARTYR - 10 DECEMBER

 

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SAINT POLYDORE PLASDEN, PRIEST AND MARTYR


⬅️ Forty Martyrs of England and Wales

[Saint] Polydore Plasden, alias Oliver Palmer, born in 1563, was the son of a London horner. He was educated at Reims and at Rome, where he was ordained priest on December 7, 1586. 

He remained at Rome for more than a year, and then was at Reims from April 8 till September 2, 1588, when he was sent on the mission. 

HE WAS SENT ON THE MISSION

While at Rome he had signed a petition for the retention of the Jesuits as superiors of the English College, but in England he was considered to have suffered injury through their agency. 

He was captured on November 8, 1591, in London, at Swithin Wells‘s house in Gray’s Inn Fields, where Venerable Edmund Gennings was celebrating Mass. 

HE WOULD RATHER FORFEIT A THOUSAND LIVES THAN DENY THE CATHOLIC FAITH

At his execution he acknowledged Elizabeth as his lawful queen, whom he would defend to the best of his power against all her enemies, and he prayed for her and the whole realm, but said that he would rather forfeit a thousand lives than deny or fight against his religion. 

By the orders of Sir Walter Raleigh, he was allowed to hang till he was dead, and the sentence was carried out upon his body. 

Source: Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913

PRAYER:

Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that we who know how courageously your holy martyr Polydore confessed the faith, may experience his goodness as he intercedes for us with you. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen.

➡️ Eighty-five Martyrs of England and Wales

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