Forty Martyrs of England and Wales

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Forty Martyrs of England and Wales
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Died	1535–1679, England and Wales
Venerated in	Roman Catholic Church
Canonized	25 October 1970 by Pope Paul VI
Feast	October 25
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The Forty Martyrs of England and Wales are a group of Christian martyrs who were canonized on 25 October 1970 by Pope Paul VI to represent the Catholics martyred in England and Wales between 1535 and 1679.

Saint John Almond Saint Edmund Arrowsmith Saint Ambrose Barlow Saint John Boste Saint Alexander Bryant Saint Edmund Campion Saint Margaret Clitherow Saint Philip Evans Saint Thomas Garnet Saint Edmund Gennings Saint Richard Gwyn Saint John Houghton Saint Philip Howard Saint John Jones

Saint John Kemble Saint Luke Kirby Saint Robert Lawrence Saint David Lewis Saint Anne Line Saint John Lloyd Saint Cuthbert Mayne Saint Henry Morse Saint Nicholas Owen Saint John Payne Saint Polydore Plasden Saint John Plessington Saint Richard Reynolds Saint John Rigby

Saint John Roberts Saint Alban Roe Saint Ralph Sherwin Saint John Southworth Saint Robert Southwell Saint John Stone Saint John Wall Saint Henry Walpole Saint Margaret Ward Saint Augustine Webster Saint Swithun Wells Saint Eustace White

[edit] See also

• List of Catholic martyrs of England
• English Roman Catholic parish histories
• English Saints and Martyrs of the Reformation Era, a Church of England commemoration-day for Protestant and Catholic martyrs of the same era as this
• Catholic Church in England and Wales
• Eighty-five martyrs of England and Wales, a list of eighty-five beatified by the Catholic Church to represent those executed by the Protestant government at the time
• Marian martyrs, an open-ended list of Protestants executed by the Roman Catholic Church as heretics and later venerated as Protestant martyrs.
• Oxford Martyrs, a list of three Bishops of the Catholic Church executed as heretics and later venerated as Protestant martyrs.

[edit] External links

• Catholic Forum: Forty Martyrs of England and Wales
• Sermon of Paul VI on the occasion of the canonisation of forty martyrs from England and Wales, 25 October 1970 (largely in Italian)

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