Blessed Edward James

Memorial

• 1 October

Profile

Raised Protestant. Educated at Saint John’s College, Oxford. Converted to Catholicism. Seminarian at Rheims and Rome, Italy. Ordained in 1583. Returned to England to minister to covert Catholics. Imprisoned four and a half years with Blessed Ralph Crockett. Executed for the crime of being a priest.

Born

• at Breaston, Derbyshire, England

Died

• hanged, drawn, and quartered on 1 October 1588 at Chichester, West Sussex, England

Venerated

• 8 December 1929 by Pope Pius XI

Beatified

• 15 December 1929 by Pope Pius XI

Canonized

• if you have information relevant to the canonization of Blessed Edward, contact
     Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales
     39 Eccleston Square
     London SW1V 1BX, UNITED KINGDOM

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Hagiography Circle
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints

MLA Citation

• “”. Saints.SQPN.com. November 2012. Web. 22 May 2013. <http://saints.sqpn.com//>