ENGLISH SPEAKING SAINTS DECEMBER 10

ENGLISH SPEAKING SAINTS DECEMBER 10 St. Eustace White, 1591 A.D. One of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales. He was born in Louth, Lincolnshire, England. Converted to the faith, he studied for the priesthood at Reims, France, and in Rome. After ordination in 1588, he returned to England. Eustace was taken prisoner because of his missionary work and executed at Tyburn, England. Bl. Thomas Somers, 1610 A.D English martyr. Born in Westmoreland, England, he worked for a time as a schoolmaster. Leaving England, he went to Douai, France, where he studied for the priesthood and received ordination before returning home under the alias of Wilson to assist the Catholic cause in London. Arrested for being a priest, he was hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn with Blessed John Roberts. St. Edmund Genings, 1591 A.D. One of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales. Born in Lichfield, England, he converted to the faith. He was ordained a priest at Reims, France, in 1590. The following years, after working in England, he was martyred at Gray’s Inn Fields in London. Bl. John Mason, 1591 A.D. Martyr of England, a layman arrested for harboring St. Edmund Gennings, priest. He was martyred at Tyburn by being hanged, drawn, and quartered with Sts. Edmund Gennings and Palydore Plasden and With Blessed Sidney Hodgson. Pope Pius Xl beatified him in 1929. St. Polydore Plasden, 1563-1591 A.D. One of the Forty Martyrs of England. A native of London, he studied for the priesthood at Reims and Rome and was ordained in 1586. Sent to England soon after, he worked for the reconversion of the island until his arrest by English authorities. He was taken prisoner with St. Edmund Genings. Polydore was hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tybum. Beatified in 1929, he was canonized in 1970 by Pope Paul VI as one of the Forty Martyrs.