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In the reign of Pope Gregory XIII (1572–85), authorisation was given for 63 recognised martyrs to have their relics honoured and pictures painted for Catholic devotions. These martyrs were formally beatified by Pope Leo XIII, 54 in 1886 and the remaining nine in 1895. Further groups of martyrs were subsequently documented and proposed by the ...
John Story (or Storey) (1504 – 1 June 1571) was an English Roman Catholic martyr and Member of Parliament.Story escaped to Flanders in 1563, but seven years later he was lured aboard a boat in Antwerp and abducted to England, where he was imprisoned in the Tower of London, and subsequently executed at Tyburn on a charge of treason.
The Fifty Two Martyrs of Brazil, 1570-1571, including: Inácio de Azevedo, 1570; ... one of the 19th century Chinese Catholic Martyrs, 1862; Thomas Baker, ...
In February 1571, the entire party was massacred by Indians, except for Alonso de Olmos. ... The Martyrs have been declared Servants of God by the Catholic Church ...
The Forty Martyrs of England and Wales [1] or Cuthbert Mayne and Thirty-Nine Companion Martyrs are a group of Catholic, lay and religious, men and women, executed between 1535 and 1679 for treason and related offences under various laws enacted by Parliament during the English Reformation.
Laurence Humphreys (1571 – 7 July 1591) was an English Catholic martyr.He was born in Hampshire, into a Protestant family. [1]In his youth, he often read the Bible and other religious works and practiced the Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy by visiting the sick and those in prison, as well as teaching others about the faith.
He joined the German College in Rome on 1 October 1571. He was ordained a priest in Brussels from the English College, Douai . After a pilgrimage to Rome in 1579 he returned to England in 1580, was arrested on 12 July and put in the Poultry Counter . [ 3 ]
In England, these martyrs, together with those beatified between 1886 and 1929, are commemorated by a feast day on 4 May. This day also honours the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales who hold the rank of saint; the Forty Martyrs were honoured separately on 25 October until the liturgical calendar for England was revised in the year 2000. [4]