The Forty Martyrs

Today (4th May) is the feast of the Forty Martyrs. These forty are representative of the much larger number of Catholics executed, tortured to death, or dying in prison, for the Faith in the 16th and 17th Centuries. The Forty were canonised in 1970 by Pope Paul VI; many others are 'beati' and 'venerabili', and more are known only to God.

The Forty Martyrs

Saint Alban Roe
Saint Alexander Briant
Saint Ambrose Barlow
Saint Anne Line
Saint Augustine Webster
Saint Cuthbert Mayne
Saint David Lewis
Saint Edmund Arrowsmith
Saint Edmund Campion
Saint Edmund Gennings,
Saint Eustace White
Saint Henry Morse
Saint Henry Walpole
Saint John Almond
Saint John Boste
Saint John Houghton
Saint John Jones
Saint John Kemble
Saint John Lloyd
Saint John Paine
Saint John Plessington
Saint John Rigby
Saint John Roberts
Saint John Southworth
Saint John Stone
Saint John Wall
Saint Luke Kirby
Saint Margaret Clitherow
Saint Margaret Ward
Saint Nicholas Owen
Saint Philip Evans
Saint Philip Howard
Saint Polydore Plasden
Saint Ralph Sherwin
Saint Richard Gwyn
Saint Richard Reynolds
Saint Robert Lawrence
Saint Robert Southwell
Saint Swithun Wells
Saint Thomas Garnet

Ora pro nobis!