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Blessed William Patenson

Also known as

William Pattenson

22 January
29 October as one of the Martyrs of Douai

Profile

Studied at Rheims, France. Ordained in September 1587. Returned to England in 1588 to minister to covert Catholics. Arrested in Clerkwenwell, England in December 1591 at a private home where he was saying Mass. He was condemned to death for the crime of priesthood. While in awaiting his execution, he ministered to other prisoners, and converted six of them to Catholicism.

Born

Durham, England

hanged, drawn, and quartered on 22 January 1592 at Tyburn, London, England

8 December 1929 by Pope Pius XI

15 December 1929 by Pope Pius XI

Additional Information

105 Martyrs of Tyburn
Catholic Encyclopedia
Mementoes of the English Martyrs and Confessors, by Father Henry Sebastian Bowden
Saints of the Day, by Katherine Rabenstein

books
- A Calendar of the English Martyrs of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
- Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints

other sites in english
- Catholic Online
- Hagiography Circle

sitios en español
- Martirologio Romano, 2001 edición

fonti in italiano
- Martirologio Romano, 2005 edition
- Santi e Beati

MLA Citation

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