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  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN OCTOBER   Saints celebrated on the 8th of October WELCOME! BLESSED JOHN ADAMS, PRIEST AND MARTYR London Oratory, The Martyrs of Tyburn Tree (detail)  John Adams  was born at Martin's Town, in Dorsetshire, and performed his divinity studies in the English college, then residing at Rheims; from whence he was sent as priest upon the mission, anno 1581. He was one of those priests that were banished in 1585; and, upon that occasion, returned to the college; but, after a short stay, went again into the vineyard, where he was again apprehended. Other particulars relating to him I have not found, only Molanus signifies, that his constancy was proof against the artifices and promises, by which many sought to divert him from his generous resolution of laying down his life for his faith. Multorum elusis artibus, qui constantiam de more catholicorum varüs promissis mollire conantur. He was condemned barely for being a priest, and was executed at Tybu...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN OCTOBER   Saints celebrated on the 8th of October WELCOME! 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 . Source: Catholic Encyclopedi...