BLESSED JOHN ADAMS, PRIEST AND MARTYR - 8 OCTOBER

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN OCTOBER 

Saints celebrated on the 8th of October

BLESSED JOHN ADAMS, PRIEST AND MARTYR

⬅️ The Holy Martyrs of England and Wales

[Blessed] John Adams, Priest, was martyred at Tyburn, October 8, 1586. He had been a Protestant minister, but being converted, went to Reims in 1579, where he was ordained a priest. He returned to England in March, 1581. 

Father William Watford, who knew him personally, described him as a man of "about forty years of age, of average height, with a dark beard, a sprightly look and black eyes. He was a very good controversialist, straightforward, very pious, and pre-eminently a man of hard work. He laboured very strenuously at Winchester and in Hampshire, where he helped many, especially of the poorer classes." 

Imprisoned in 1584, he was banished with 72 other priests in 1585; but having returned was again arrested, and executed, with two others, John Lowe and Robert Dibdale.

(From Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913)

PRAYER:

Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that we who know how courageously your holy martyr John 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.