Boste, John [St John Boste] (1544–1594), Roman Catholic priest and martyr, was born at Wellyng Manor, Dufton, Westmorland, the younger of two sons of Nicholas Boste, of Wellyng Manor, and his wife, Janet Hutton, of Hutton Hall in Penrith. Boste went to Queen's College, Oxford...
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Boste, John [St John Boste] (1544–1594), Roman Catholic priest and martyr
J. Andreas Löwe
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Briant, Alexander [St Alexander Briant] (1556–1581), Roman Catholic priest and martyr
Thompson Cooper
revised by Michael Mullett
Briant, Alexander [St Alexander Briant] (1556–1581), Roman Catholic priest and martyr, was born in Somerset or Dorset. He was admitted to Hart Hall, Oxford, in Lent term 1574 and proceeded to Balliol College, Oxford. His tutors included the future Jesuits Richard Holtby and ...
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See Fáelán Amlabar [Fillan the Mute, Fáelchú mac Dorbéni, St Fillan]
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Gennings, Edmund [St Edmund Gennings] (1566–1591), Roman Catholic priest and martyr
Christine J. Kelly
Gennings, Edmund [St Edmund Gennings] (1566–1591), Roman Catholic priest and martyr, was born in Lichfield, Staffordshire, possibly the son of John Gennings (fl. 1555–1579), innkeeper and bailiff, and his wife (fl. 1566–1581). He was brought up as a protestant and was '...
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Kemble, John [St John Kemble] (1599–1679), Roman Catholic priest
W. A. J. Archbold
revised by G. Bradley
Kemble, John [St John Kemble] (1599–1679), Roman Catholic priest, was the son of John Kemble, gentleman, and Anne Kemble (née Morgan) of Rhyd y Car, St Weonards, Herefordshire. He went to St Gregory's College, Seville, Spain, about 1620, and was ordained priest at ...
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Lloyd, John [St John Lloyd] (c. 1630–1679), Roman Catholic priest
Richard C. Allen
Lloyd, John [St John Lloyd] (c. 1630–1679), Roman Catholic priest, was born in Brecon, the son of Walter Lloyd. He was a brother of William Lloyd, archdeacon of south Wales, and is believed to be the brother of Mother Margaret Bruno Lloyd of ...
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Mayne, Cuthbert [St Cuthbert Mayne] (bap. 1544, d. 1577), Roman Catholic priest and martyr
Raymond Francis Trudgian
Mayne, Cuthbert [St Cuthbert Mayne] (bap. 1544, d. 1577), Roman Catholic priest and martyr, was baptized in Youlston, near Barnstaple, north Devon, on the feast of St Cuthbert, 20 March 1544, the son of William Mayne, a farmer employed by Sir John Chichester...
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Plessington, John [St John Plessington; alias William Scarisbrick] (1636–1679), Roman Catholic priest
John P. Marmion
Plessington, John [St John Plessington; alias William Scarisbrick] (1636–1679), Roman Catholic priest, was born at Garstang, Lancashire, the son of Robert Plessington of Dimples Hall, Garstang, and his wife, Alice Rawstone, daughter of Laurence Rawstone of Tottington, Bury. His was an old Lancashire...
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Regulus [St Regulus, Rule] (supp. fl. 8th–9th cent.), supposed founder of the see of St Andrews
Ursula Hall
Regulus [St Regulus, Rule] (supp. fl. 8th–9th cent.), supposed founder of the see of St Andrews, is associated in legend with the establishment of the cult of St Andrew in Scotland. According to manuscript tradition and the account in the Aberdeen breviary of 1510, ...
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Sherwin, Ralph [St Ralph Sherwin] (1549/50–1581), Roman Catholic priest and martyr
Michael E. Williams
Sherwin, Ralph [St Ralph Sherwin] (1549/50–1581), Roman Catholic priest and martyr, was born at Rodsley, near Ashbourne, Derbyshire. His parents were probably John and Constance Sherwin. In 1568 he became a fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, and 'progressed with great industry the several classes of logic and philosophy...
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Southworth, John [St John Southworth] (1592–1654), Roman Catholic priest and martyr
John Morrill
Southworth, John [St John Southworth] (1592–1654), Roman Catholic priest and martyr, was born into an unflinchingly recusant family at Samlesbury, Lancashire. A government spy reported about the time of his birth that there was a popish schoolmaster in Samlesbury, and it is quite possible that this man educated ...
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Wulfric of Haselbury [St Wulfric of Haselbury] (c. 1090–1154/5), priest and hermit
H. E. J. Cowdrey
Wulfric of Haselbury [St Wulfric of Haselbury] (c. 1090–1154/5), priest and hermit, spent much of his life enclosed in a cell at Haselbury Plucknett (Somerset), where he lived a life of great austerity and received many visitors, including kings and queens.
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