ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JUNE Saints celebrated on the 23th of June WELCOME! 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 ⬅️ The Holy Martyrs of England and Wales