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ENGLISH MARTYRS - 4 MAY


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85 MARTYRS OF ENGLAND AND WALES

Bl. Arthur Bell

The 85 Martyrs of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland are a group of Catholic martyrs who were executed by the English government for practising the Catholic Faith during the 16th and 17th century. They were selected from a vast number of priests, religious, and laypeople and beatified on November 22, 1987 (by Pope John Paul II).

THE LIST OF THESE HOLY MARTYRS: 

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Blesseds John Adams, Thomas Atkinson, Edward Bamber, George Beesley, Arthur Bell, Thomas Belson, Robert Bickerdike, Alexander Blake, Marmaduke Bowes, John Bretton, Thomas Bullaker, Edward Burden, Roger Cadwallador, William Carter, Alexander Crow, William Davies, Robert Dibdale, George Douglas, Robert Drury, Edmund Duke, George Errington, Roger Filcock, John Finglow, Matthew Flathers, Richard Flower, Nicholas Garlick, William Gibson, Ralph Grimston, Robert Grissold, John Hambley, Robert Hardesty, George Haydock, Henry Heath, Richard Hill, John Hogg, Richard Holiday, Nicholas Horner, Thomas Hunt, Thurstan Hunt, Francis Ingleby, William Knight, Joseph Lampton, William Lampley, John Lowe, Robert Ludlam, Charles Meehan (Mahoney), Robert Middleton, George Nichols, John Norton, Robert Nutter, Edward Osbaldeston, Anthony Page, Thomas Palasor, William Pike, Thomas Pilchard, Thomas Pormort, Nicholas Postgate, Humphrey Pritchard, Christopher Robinson, Stephen Rousham, John Sandys, Monford Scott, Richard Sergeant, Richard Simpson, Peter Snow, William Southerne, William Spenser, Thomas Sprott, John Sugar, Robert Sutton, Edmund Sykes, John Talbot, Hugh Taylor, William Thompson, Robert Thorp, John Thules, Edward Thwing, Thomas Watkinson, Henry Webley, Christopher Wharton, Thomas Whitaker [Whittaker], John Woodcock, Nicholas Woodfen, Roger Wrenno, Richard Yaxley 

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THE ENGLISH MARTYRS BEATIFIED BY POPE PIUS XI ON DECEMBER 15, 1929

Henry Abbot, layman; John Amias, priest; Robert Anderton, priest; William Andleby, priest; Ralph Ashley, priest; Thomas Alfield, priest; Christopher Bales, priest; Mark Barkworth, Benedictine; William Barrow (William Harcourt); James Bell, priest; James Bird (Byrd/Beard), layman; John Bodey, priest; Thomas Bosgrave, layman; William Brown, layman; Christopher Buxton, priest; Edward Campion (Gerard Edwards); John Carey; Edmund Catherick, priest; James Claxton (Clarkson), priest; Edward Coleman (Colman), layman; Ralph Corbie, Jesuit; John Cornelius S.J., priest; Ralph Crockett, priest; Robert Dalby, priest; William Dean, priest; Francis Dicconson, priest; Roger Dickinson, James Duckett, layman; John Duckett, priest; Thomas Felton, Franciscan; James Fenn, priest; John Fenwick, priest; John Finch; William Freeman, priest; Edward Fulthrop, layman; John Gavan, priest; Miles Gerard, priest; George Gervase, Benedictine; David Gonson (Gunston), Professed Knight in the Order of St John; Hugh Green, priest; John Grove, layman; William Gunter, priest; William Harrington, priest; William Hartley, priest; Thomas Hemerford, priest; Richard Herst (Hurst), layman; John Hewitt (John Weldon, John Savell), priest; Sydney Hodgson, layman; Thomas Holford, priest; Thomas Holland, priest; Laurence Humphreys (Humphrey), layman; John Ingram, priest; John Ireland, priest; William Ireland, Jesuit priest; Edward James, priest; Edward Jones, priest; Brian Lacey, layman; Richard Langhorne, layman; Richard Langley, layman; Richard Leigh, priest; John Lockwood, priest; William Marsden, priest; Richard Martin, layman; John Mason, layman; Thomas Maxfield, priest; Anthony Middleton, priest; Ralph Milner, layman; Hugh More, layman; Robert Morton, priest; John Munden, priest; George Napper (Napier), priest; John Nutter, priest; Edward Oldcorne, priest; Francis Page, Jesuit; William Patenson, priest; John Pibush, priest; Thomas Pickering, Benedictine; Philip Powel (Powell), Benedictine; Alexander Rawlins, priest; Thomas Reynolds, priest; William Richardson, priest; John Robinson, priest; John Roche, layman; Patrick Salmon, layman; Maurus Scott (William Scot); Edward Shelley, layman; John Slade , layman; Richard Smith, (Richard Newport), priest; Thomas Somers, priest; John Speed, layman; William Howard, 1st Viscount Stafford, layman; Edward Stransham, priest; Robert Sutton, layman; George Swallowell, layman; Thomas Thwing, priest; Thomas Tunstal, priest; Anthony Turner, Jesuit; Thomas Warcop, layman; William Ward, priest; Edward Waterson, priest; Robert Watkinson, priest; William Way (William May, William Flower), priest; Thomas Welbourne, layman; Thomas Whitbread, Jesuit; Robert Widmerpool, layman; Robert Wilcox, priest; Peter Wright, Jesuit

ENGLISH MARTYRS BEATIFIED ON DECEMBER 29, 1886 (by Pope Leo XIII)

Thomas Abell, Richard Bere, Alexander Briant, Edmund Campion, Thomas Cottam, John Davy, William Exmew, John Felton, Richard Fetherston, William Filby, John Fisher, Thomas Ford, John Forest, German Gardiner, Thomas Green, William Greenwood, John Hale, Everard Hanse, William Hart, William Horne, John Houghton, Robert Johnson, Thomas Johnson, Luke Kirby, Richard Kirkman, William Lacy (Lacey), John Larke, Robert Lawrence, Cuthbert Mayne, Humphrey Middlemore, Thomas More, John Nelson, Sebastian Newdigate, John Paine, Walter Pierson, Thomas Plumtree, Edward Powell, Thomas Redyng, Richard Reynolds, Laurence Richardson, John Rochester, Margaret Pole, Robert Salt, Thomas Scryven, John Shert, Ralph Sherwin, John Stone, John Story, Richard Thirkeld, James Thompson, James Walworth, Augustine Webster, Thomas Woodhouse

ENGLISH MARTYRS BEATIFIED ON MAY 13, 1895 (by Pope Leo XIII)

John Beche, John Eynon, Hugh Faringdon, Adrian Fortescue, Roger James, Thomas Percy, Earl of Northumberland, John Rugg, John Thorne, Richard Whiting, Thomas Sherwood, John Nelson

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William Davies, Robert Morton, Ven. John Goodman, Ven. Thomas Belchiam, Ven. James Harrison, Ven. Laurence Baily, Ven. Nicholas Tichburn, Ven. Thomas Hackshot, Thomas Tichburn

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SAINTS:

Saints John Almond, Edmund Arrowsmith, Ambrose Edward Barlow, John Boste, Alexander Briant, Edmund Campion, Margaret Clitherow, Philip Evans, Thomas Garnet, Edmund Gennings, Richard Gwyn (White), John Houghton, Philip Howard, John Jones, John Kemble, Luke Kirby, Robert Lawrence, David Lewis, Anne Line, John Lloyd, Cuthbert Mayne, Henry Morse, Nicholas Owen, John Paine, Polydore Plasden, John Plessington, Richard Reynolds, John Rigby, John Roberts, Alban Roe, Ralph Sherwin, Robert Southwell, John Southworth, John Stone, John Wall, Henry Walpole, Margaret Ward, Augustine Webster, Swithin Wells, Eustace White 





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