Blessed Anthony Turner

Memorial

• 20 June

Profile

Son of a Protestant minister. Educated at Cambridge University. Convert to Catholicism. Studied in Rome, Italy. Joined the Jesuits in Flanders, Belgium. Ordained in 1661. He returned to England and worked in Worcester. Arrested in the Titus Oates Plot, he was convicted of treason based on perjured evidence; one of the trial rules was that no Catholic could be believed in court. Martyr.

Born

• 1628 in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, England

Died

• hanged, drawn, and quartered on 20 June 1679 at Tyburn, London, England

Venerated

• 8 December 1929 by Pope Pius XI (decree of martyrdom)

Beatified

• 15 December 1929 by Pope Pius XI

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Catholic Online
• Catholic Encyclopedia: Oates’ Plot
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints

MLA Citation

• “Blessed Anthony Turner”. Saints.SQPN.com. 11 August 2012. Web. 23 May 2013. <http://saints.sqpn.com/blessed-anthony-turner/>