Forty Martyrs of England and Wales

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Forty Martyrs of England and Wales
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 Roman 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 Saints and Martyrs of the Reformation Era, a Church of England commemoration-day for Roman Catholic and Church of England martyrs of the English Reformation
• Catholic Church in England and Wales
• Eighty-five martyrs of England and Wales, a list of eighty-five beatified by the pope to represent those executed during the English Reformation
• Marian Persecutions‎, includes an open-ended list of people executed by Mary I of England (Bloody Mary) as heretics and later venerated as martyrs in the Church of England.
• Oxford Martyrs, three English bishops executed as heretics during the Marian Persecutions‎ and later venerated as martyrs in the Church of England.

[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)