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BL. JOHN INGRAM, PRIEST AND MARTYR - 26 JULY

 

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BLESSED JOHN INGRAM, PRIEST AND MARTYR

[Blessed John was an] English martyr, born at Stoke Edith, Herefordshire, in 1565; executed at Newcastle-on-Tyne, July 26, 1594. He was probably the son of Anthony Ingram of Wolford, Warwickshire, by Dorothy, daughter of Sir John Hungerford. 

He was educated first in Worcestershire, then at the English College, Reims, at the Jesuit College, Pont-a-Mousson, and at the English College, Rome. Ordained at Rome in 1589, he went to Scotland early in 1592, and there frequented the company of Lords Huntly, Angus, and Erroll, the Abbot of Dumbries, and Sir Walter Lindsay of Balgavies. 

Captured on the Tyne, November 25, 1593, he was imprisoned successively at Berwick, Durgam, York, and in the Tower of London, in which place he suffered the severest tortures with great constancy, and wrote twenty Latin epigrams which have survived. Sent north again, he was imprisoned at York, Newcastle, and Durgam, where he was tried in the company of John Boste and George Swallowell, a converted minister. He was convicted under 27 Eliz. c. 2 (which made the mere presence in England of a priest ordained abroad high treason), though there was no evidence that he had ever exercised any priestly function in England. It appears that someone in Scotland in vain offered the English Government a thousand crowns for his life.

Source: John Bannerman Wainewright, Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913

John Ingram was beatified by Pope Pius XI on December 15, 1929.

⬅️ The Holy Martyrs of England and Wales

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.


























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