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Blessed John Grove

24 January

Profile

Layman. Servant of Blessed William Ireland and other Jesuits in London, England. Arrested on 28 September 1678, accused of having received £1500 to help in the Titus Oates Plot. Served time with Blessed Thomas Pickering. Martyr.

hanged on 24 January 1679 at Tyburn, London, England

8 December 1929 by Pope Pius XI

15 December 1929 by Pope Pius XI

Additional Information

105 Martyrs of Tyburn
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

Readings

We are innocent, we lose our lives wrongfully, we pray God to forgive them that are the causes of it. – Blessed John, from the gallows

MLA Citation

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