Wednesday, November 13, 2019

BLESSED JOHN IRELAND

Bl. John Ireland

Feast day: March 7
Death: 1544
English martyr and chaplain to St. Thomas More. He became a pastor at Eltham, Kent, prior to his arrest for resisting the supremacy of King Henry VIII of England over the Church of England. Executed at Tyburn, he died with Blesseds Jermyn Gardiner and John Larke.

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