Martyrs of England and Wales

February 3 – His crime was to call the queen a schismatic

February 1, 2024

Viscount Stafford

December 28, 2023

December 29 – St. Thomas à Becket

December 28, 2023

November 2 – His mother celebrated his death as if it were a wedding

November 2, 2023

October 29 – One of the Martyrs of Douai

October 26, 2023

October 5 – William Hartley

October 5, 2023

December 1 – Bl. Ralph Sherwin

November 28, 2022

December 1 – He Hid Priests in His Manorhouse

November 28, 2022

November 20 – St. Edmund the Martyr

November 17, 2022

November 15 – Martyred for God (and Money…)

November 14, 2022

November 9 – Executed in Oxford, buried with the Templars

November 7, 2022

November 2 – His mother celebrated his death as if it were a wedding

October 31, 2022

October 23 – Gentle Birth, But Not Gentle Death

October 20, 2022

October 19 – Prayer was his crime

October 17, 2022

September 10 – Arrested while preaching

September 8, 2022

August 22 – Blessed John Wall

August 18, 2022

August 11 – Martyred with a rusty and ragged knife

August 8, 2022

August 7 – Octogenarian martyr

August 4, 2022

August 7 – Three martyrs of Lancaster

August 4, 2022

August 4 – Carthusian Martyrs: The Lone Survivor

August 1, 2022

July 26 – Blessed John Ingram

July 25, 2022

July 24 – St. John Boste

July 21, 2022

July 12 – Thomas Tunstall

July 11, 2022

July 14 – “I am desirous to be with my Jesus. I am ready”

July 11, 2022

July 6 – Bl. Thomas Alfield

July 4, 2022

July 1 – Venerable Thomas Maxfield

June 30, 2022

June 30 – Thomas Whitbread

June 30, 2022

June 30 – Philip Powel

June 27, 2022

June 22 – St. Thomas More

June 20, 2022

June 22 – St. John Fisher

June 20, 2022

June 19 – Execution of second group of those who believed in the religious exemption, but only at first

June 16, 2022

June 20 – Ven. William Barrow

June 16, 2022

June 1 – Kidnapped for Christ

May 30, 2022

May 28 – Whether She Was Upstairs Or Downstairs, She Was Ever Steady

May 26, 2022

May 30 – Bl. William Filby and companions

May 26, 2022

May 30 – William Maurus Scot

May 26, 2022

May 30 – Bl. Thomas Cottam

May 26, 2022

May 22 – Hanged for Printing a Book

May 19, 2022

May 15 – Palms on Palm Sunday lead to his cruel martyrdom

May 12, 2022

May 11 – Martyr of the House of Rochester

May 9, 2022

May 9 – Known personally to the King, he was falsely accused of conspiring to murder him

May 5, 2022

April 26 – His ears were nailed to the pillory

April 25, 2022

April 20 – “I beg your Lordship…that my lips and…fingers may be cut off…”

April 18, 2022

April 20 – Blessed Richard Sergeant

April 18, 2022

April 20 – Blessed John Finch

April 18, 2022

April 7 – Ven. Edward Oldcorne and his servant

April 4, 2022

April 7 – Ven. Henry Walpole

April 4, 2022

March 28 – He refused life and liberty at the price of conformity

March 24, 2022

March 23 – Edmund Sykes

March 21, 2022

March 21-22 – James Harrison

March 17, 2022

March 10 – George Ashby

March 7, 2022

March 4 – “Your Honor, was St. Augustine also a traitor?”

March 3, 2022

March 7 – Last cruelties of Henry VIII

March 3, 2022

February 26 – Blessed Robert Drury

February 24, 2022

February 27 – “Which of you Gospellers can show such a knee?”

February 24, 2022

February 20 – Repeatedly racked

February 17, 2022

February 15 – One of his last utterances was a prayer for the queen

February 14, 2022

February 1 – Immediately after his martyrdom, they lined up to venerate his relics

January 31, 2022

February 3 – His crime was to call the queen a schismatic

January 31, 2022

January 24 – They called him “Ironmonger”

January 20, 2022

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