ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN FEBRUARY
Saints celebrated on the 4th of February
BLESSED JOHN SPEED, MARTYR
1594. In the beginning of this year, or, according to the English account, in the latter end of 1593, viz. on the 4th of February, John Speed, layman, was executed at Durham.
His guilt was, being aiding and assisting to priests, whom he used to serve in guiding and conducting from one catholic house to another. He died with constancy, despising the proffers that were made him to bring him to conform.
Source: Bishop Richard Challoner, Memoirs of Missionary Priests, Volume 1
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