Saints celebrated on the 23th of June
ROBERT ASHTON AND THOMAS METHAM, MARTYRS
This year, 1592, on the 23rd of June, Robert Ashton, gentleman, born at Croston, in Lancashire, was executed at Tyburn, for procuring a dispensation from Rome, to marry his second cousin. Catalog. Chalced., &c. And in the same month, Thomas Metham, one of the first missioners from Douay, afterwards a Jesuit, died a prisoner for his faith in Wisbech castle.
Source: Bishop Richard Challoner, Memoirs of Missionary Priests, Volume 1
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