Saint Henry Walpole

Memorial

• 7 April
• 25 October as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales

Profile

Educated at Norwich, Cambridge and Gray’s Inn, London, England. Adult convert to Catholicism. Studied for the priesthood at Rheims, France in 1582, and English College, Rome, Italy in 1583. Joined the Jesuits in 1584. Ordained on 15 December 1588 at Paris, France. Chaplain to the English soldiers stationed in Brussels, Belgium. Vice-governor of the College of Saint Alban at Valladolid, Spain in early 1593. Returned to England on 4 December 1593 to minister to covert Catholics around York. He was arrested the next day for the crime of priesthood, serving time in York and the Tower of London, and being repeatedly tortured before his martyrdom. One of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales.

Born

• 1558 at Docking, Norfolk, England

Died

• hanged, drawn, and quartered on 7 April 1595 at York, England

Venerated

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

Beatified

• 15 December 1929 by Pope Pius XI

Canonized

• 25 October 1970 by Pope Paul VI

Additional Information

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

MLA Citation

• “Saint Henry Walpole”. Saints.SQPN.com. 6 April 2010. Web. 19 June 2013. <http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-henry-walpole/>