Bulletins
October 25, 2020
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Lay and Religious, Men and Women
Faithful Catholics executed between 1535 and 1679
Canonized on 25 October 1970 by Pope Paul VI
Alban Roe (21 January 1642) Benedictine monk
Alexander Bryant (1 December 1581) Jesuit priest
Ambrose Barlow (10 September 1641) Benedictine monk
Anne Line (27 February 1601) widow
Augustine Webster (4 May 1535) Carthusian monk
Cuthbert Mayne (29 November 1577) secular priest
David Lewis (27 August 1679) Jesuit priest
Edmund Arrowsmith (28 August 1628) Jesuit priest
Edmund Campion (1 December 1581) Jesuit priest
Edmund Gennings (10 December 1591) secular priest
Eustace White (10 December 1591) secular priest
Henry Morse (1 February 1645) Jesuit priest
Henry Walpole (7 April 1595) Jesuit priest
John Almond (5 December 1612) secular priest
John Boste (24 July 1549) secular priest
John Houghton (4 May 1535) Carthusian monk
John Jones (12 July 1598) Franciscan priest
John Kemble (22 August 1679) secular priest
John Lloyd (22 July 1679) secular priest
John Payne (2 April 1582) secular priest
John Plessington (19 July 1679) secular priest
John Rigby (21 June 1600) layman
John Roberts (10 December 1610) Benedictine monk
John Stone (27 December 1539) Augustinian priest
John Southworth (28 June 1654) secular priest
John Wall (22 August 1679) Franciscan priest
Luke Kirby (30 May 1582) secular priest
Margaret Clitherow (25 March 1586) wife & mother
Margaret Ward (30 August 1588) laywoman
Nicholas Owen (2 March 1606) Jesuit brother
Philip Evans (22 July 1679) Jesuit priest
Philip Howard (19 October 1595) Earl of Arundel
Polydore Plasden (10 December 1591) secular priest
Ralph Sherwin (1 December 1581) secular priest
Richard Gwyn (15 October 1584) husband, father & teacher
Richard Reynolds (4 May 1535) Bridgettine monk
Robert Lawrence (4 May 1535) Carthusian monk
Robert Southwell (21 February 1595) Jesuit priest
Swithun Wells (10 December 1591) husband & schoolmaster
Thomas Garnet (23 June 1608) Jesuit priest
Distinct from the Eighty-five Martyrs of England and Wales who were beatified on 22 November 1987 by Pope John Paul II.
Mostly distinct from the eighteen Carthusian Martyrs of London who were beatified in 1886 by Pope Leo XIII.
Saints Thomas More and John Fisher were not alone. Nor are we.
