Saints celebrated on the 30th of May
BLESSED WILLIAM FILBY, PRIEST AND MARTYR
Born in Oxfordshire between 1557 and 1560; suffered at Tyburn, May 30, 1582. Educated at Lincoln College, Oxford, he was admitted to the seminary at Reims, October 12, 1579. He was ordained priest at Reims, March 25, 1581, and shortly after left for the mission.
He was arrested in July, committed to the Tower, removed August 14 to the Marshalsea, and thence back to the Tower again. He was sentenced November 17, and from that date till he died was loaded with manacles. He was also deprived of his bedding for two months. With him suffered three other Beati, Thomas Cottam, Luke Kirby, and Laurence Richardson (vere Johnson).
Source: Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913
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