Saint Edmund Gennings, English Martyr, DVD of his life, 40 Martyrs of England and Wales
Edmund Jennings
Memorial
10 December
25 October as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales
29 October as one of the Martyrs of Douai
Profile
Convert to Catholicism at age 17. He studied and was ordained at Rheims, France in 1590. He then returned to England to minister to covert Catholics. One of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales.
Born
1567 in Lichfield, Staffordshire, England
Died
hanged, drawn and quartered on 10 December 1591 at Gray’s Inn Fields, Tyburn, London, England
Venerated
8 December 1929 by Pope Pius XI (decree of martyrdom)
Beatified
15 December 1929 by Pope Pius XI
Canonized
25 October 1970 by Pope Paul VI
Presenting the life of Saint Edmund Gennings, a 24 year old Elizabethan and Catholic priest who was executed on the English Missions of the 1590's. Detailed, historical, factual and devotional with beautiful imagery, music and narrative. Available …More