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Eighty-five Martyrs Of England And Wales
The Eighty-five Martyrs of England and Wales, also known as George Haydock and Eighty-four Companion Martyrs, are a group of men who were executed on charges of treason and related offences in the Kingdom of England between 1584 and 1679. Of the eighty-five, seventy-five (sixty-one priests and fourteen laymen) were executed under Jesuits, etc. Act 1584. They are considered martyrs in the Roman Catholic Church and were beatified on 22 November 1987 by Pope John Paul II. List of individual names They were chosen from a number of priests and laymen executed between 1584 and 1679. Their names are: *John Adams * Thomas Atkinson *Edward Bamber * George Beesley * Arthur Bell *Thomas Belson *Robert Bickerdike * Alexander Blake * Marmaduke Bowes * John Britton * Thomas Bullaker *Edward Burden *Roger Cadwallador * William Carter *Alexander Crow * William Davies * Robert Dibdale * George Douglas * Robert Drury * Edmund Duke * George Errington *Roger Filcock * John Fingley * Matthew Flather ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Carter (martyr)
William Carter (c. 1548 – 11 January 1584) was a Roman Catholic English printer and martyr. Biography William Carter was born in London in 1548, the son of John Carter, a draper, and Agnes, his wife. He was apprenticed to John Cawood, queen's printer, on Candlemas Day, 1563, for ten years, and afterwards acted as secretary to Nicholas Harpsfield, last Catholic archdeacon of Canterbury,Wainewright, John. "Ven. William Carter." The Catholic Encyclopedia Vol. 15. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1912. 25 March 2016 while Harpsfield was a prisoner in Fleet Prison. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Belson
Thomas Belson (c. 1563 - 5 July 1589) was an English Roman Catholic layman and martyr, beatified in 1987. Life Belson was born at Brill in Buckinghamshire, although the date is uncertain. He was the son of Augustine Belson. He studied at St Mary's Hall, Oxford, part of Oriel College, but did not take the B. A.; and then at the Catholic seminary in Reims. In 1584 he returned to England and was arrested, and imprisoned in the Tower of London. Eventually, in 1586, he was banished. In 1589 he was in Aston Rowant, Oxfordshire when he evaded being captured and fled to Ixhill Lodge in Oakley, Buckinghamshire where he hid in a priest hole, after some days he went to Oxford and was again arrested, at the Catherine Wheel Inn, near Balliol College, Oxford. He was with his confessor George Nicols, Richard Yaxley, a priest, and Humphrey Pritchard, a servant. They were sent to London, whence, after examination before Walsingham and repeated tortures in Bridewell and the Tower, they were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmund Duke (martyr)
Edmund Duke is the name of: *Edmund Duke (priest) The Dryburne Martyrs: Richard Hill, Richard Holiday, John Hogg and Edmund Duke (all died 27 May 1590) were English Roman Catholic priests and martyrs, executed at Dryburne, County Durham, in the reign of Elizabeth I. They were beatified by Pope ... (1563–1590), English priest and Catholic martyr * Edmund Duke (StarCraft), a fictional general in the ''StarCraft'' series {{Hndis, Duke, Edmund ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Drury (martyr)
Robert Drury (1567–1607) was an English Roman Catholic priest, executed for treason. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1987. Life He was born of a Buckinghamshire family and was received into the English College at Reims, 1 April 1588. On 17 September 1590, he was sent to the new College at Valladolid; here he finished his studies, was ordained priest and returned to England in 1593. He worked on his mission chiefly in London. He was one of the appellants against the archpriest George Blackwell, and his name is affixed to the appeal of 17 November 1600, dated from Wisbech Castle. An invitation from the English Government to these priests to acknowledge their allegiance and duty to the queen (dated 5 November 1602) led to the loyal address of 31 January 1603, drawn up by Dr. William Bishop, and signed by thirteen of the leading priests, including Drury and Roger Cadwallader. In this address they acknowledged the queen as their lawful sovereign, repudiated the claim of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Douglas (martyr)
George Douglas (''c''. 1540-1587) was one of the Eighty-five martyrs of England and Wales. Born in Edinburgh, he was originally a teacher by profession. His family were from Bonjedward near Jedburgh in the Scottish Borders. Converting to Catholicism, he travelled to France around 1556 where he was ordained a secular priest in Notre Dame, Paris, in 1574- possibly at the testimonial of Mary, Queen of Scots. Returning to the north of England, he was a priest in York, where it seems he was 'apparelled in course canvas dublit and hose,' and in the East Midlands as well.Thomas, P.V., 'Privy Council And 'Vagarant Runagate' Priests in Elizabethan York,' ''The Yorkshire Archaeological Journal'' 69 (1997), 184. Captured and found guilty in York of 'persuading the Queen's subjects away' from Protestantism, he was executed on 9 September 1587. He was beatified by Pope John Paul II on 22 November 1987. See also *Patrick Hamilton (martyr) *George Wishart *List of Protestant martyrs of the S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Dibdale
Robert Dibdale (or Debdale) (ca. 1556 – 8 October 1586) was an English Catholic priest and martyr. Biography Dibdale was born the son of John Dibdale of Shottery, a village in the county of Warwickshire, within the parish of Stratford-upon-Avon, the birthplace of William Shakespeare's wife Anne Hathaway, at a date unknown. He had a brother, Richard, and two sisters, Joan and Agnes. It would seem the family were Catholics. Peter Ackroyd speculates that Dibdale (or Debdale) attended the King's New School in Stratford, the same grammar school attended by William Shakespeare.Ackroyd, Peter''Shakespeare: The Biography''Doubleday (2005), p.64 Government records show that in 1581 his absence abroad at Louvain since about 1576 had been noted by the English authorities. Catholic records, however, show that, by that time, he had already been to Rome and had then gone to the English College in Rheims, France, arriving there on 29 December 1579, before setting out for England on 22 June 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Davies (martyr)
William Davies (died 27 July 1593) was a Welsh Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1987. There is a chapel in Anglesey built as a memorial to him. Life Davies was born in North Wales, probably Croes yn Eirias, Denbighshire, but his date of birth is not known, however one source gives the year 1555. Groes yn Eirias (meaning Torch Cross) is the old name for the area of dwellings between Llanelian and Colwyn Bay, Groes Road Colwyn Bay is a route to Llanelian Church. Eirias Park is in the same area. (It is now in the County of Conwy.) He studied at Reims, where he arrived on 6 April 1582 just in time to assist at the first Mass of Nicholas Garlick. He received tonsure and minor orders on 23 September 1583, together with seventy-three English students. Ordained as a priest in April 1585, he worked as a missionary in Wales. With his patron Robert Pugh, he secretly produced the book ''Y Drych Christianogawl'', said to be the first book printed in Wales. The p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Crow (martyr)
Alexander Crow (died 1586/7) was born in Yorkshire around 1550. He took up an early trade as a shoemaker, and hearing of an opportunity to follow his trade at the English College, then at Rheims, he travelled to France. He worked as a cobbler, porter, then under-cook at the seminary. Eventually he trained as a priest and was ordained in Laon in 1583. (Edwin Hubert Burton and John Hungerford Pollen,eds.) Longmans, Green and Co., 1914, 323. In February 1584, he returned to the to continue his |
Roger Cadwallador
Roger Cadwallador (1568 – 27 August 1610) was a Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1987. Life Roger Cadwallador was born to a Welsh family at Stretton Sugwas, near Hereford. He was ordained subdeacon at Reims, 21 September 1591, and deacon the following February. In August 1592, was sent to the English College at Valladolid, where he was ordained priest in 1593.Wainewright, John. "Ven. Roger Cadwallador." The Catholic Encyclopedia Vol. 13. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1912. 18 November 2021 Returning to England in 1594, he worked in as a missionary in both Welsh and English, especially among the poor, for a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Burden (priest)
Edward Burden (''c''.1540–1588) was a sixteenth century recusant priest. Biography Born in County Durham, he was a graduate of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He studied at Duoay College and was ordained a priest in Rheims in 1584. He is probably best known for being one of the Eighty-five martyrs of England and Wales, for, arriving in England in 1586, he was captured two years later and executed by hanging, drawing and quartering in York on 29 November 1588, He was beatified by Pope John Paul II on 22 November 1987. See also * Catholic Church in the United Kingdom * Douai Martyrs The Douai Martyrs is a name applied by the Catholic Church to 158 Catholic priests trained in the English College at Douai, France, who were executed by the English state between 1577 and 1680. History Having completed their training at Douai, ... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Burden, Edward 1540 births 1588 deaths English beatified people 16th-century venerated Christians People from C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Bullaker
Thomas Bullaker, OFM (also John Baptist) (born at Chichester about the year 1604; executed at Tyburn, 12 October 1642) was an English Franciscan Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1987. Life He was the only son of a pious and well-to-do physician of Chichester; his parents were both fervent Catholics. At an early age he was sent to the English College at St-Omer, and from there he went to Valladolid in Spain to complete his studies. Convinced of his vocation to the Franciscan Order, after much anxious deliberation, he received the habit at Abrojo, and a few years later, in 1628, was ordained priest. Having left Spain for the English mission, he landed at Plymouth, but was immediately seized and imprisoned. Released after two weeks, Bullaker by order of the provincial in England, Father Thomas of St. Francis, worked for nearly twelve years among the poor Catholics of London. On 11 September 1642, Bullaker was seized while celebrating Mass in the house of a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Britton (martyr)
John Britton (Bretton) (died 1 April 1598) was an English Catholic martyr from Barnsley, Yorkshire, who was executed during the reign of Elizabeth I. He was beatified in 1987. Biography A member of the old, established Breton family, Britton was a devout Catholic. Known as a zealous Catholic, he was subjected to continual vexations and persecutions, which caused him to absent himself from his wife and family for safety. As an old man, he was accused of making traitorous speeches against the queen and condemned to death. He refused to renounce his faith, and was executed at York on 1 April 1598. He was probably the father of Matthew Britton, prefect and professor at Douai Douai (, , ,; pcd, Doï; nl, Dowaai; formerly spelled Douay or Doway in English) is a city in the Nord département in northern France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department. Located on the river Scarpe some from Lille and from Arras, Dou ... in 1599. References Year of birth missing 1598 dea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |