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![[Saint Cuthbert Mayne]](http://saints.sqpn.com/saintc7w.jpg "11kb jpg illustration of Saint Cuthbert Mayne")
- 29 November
- 25 October as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales
Profile
Raised a Protestant by his uncle, a schimastic priest. Ordained as a Protestant minister at age 19. Friend of Saint Edmund Campion. He converted to Catholicism in 1570 while a student at Saint John’s College, Oxford. Studied and ordained at Douai, France, the first Englishman trained there. Ordained and returned to England in 1575 with Saint John Payne to minister to covert Catholics in Cornwall. Arrested in 1576, condemned and martyred for the crime of being a priest. Proto-martyr of English seminaries. One of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales.
Born
- hanged, drawn, and quartered on 30 November 1577
- relics at the Carmelite convent, Lanherne, Cornwall, England
- 29 December 1886 by Pope leo XIII (cultus confirmation)
- 4 May 1970 by Pope Paul VI (decree of martyrdom)
Additional Information
- Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
- Hagiography Circle
- Heiligen 3s
- New Catholic Dictionary
- Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints
MLA Citation