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Also known as
- John Pain
- John Paine
- 20 April
- 25 October as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales
Profile
Convert. Studied at Douai, France in 1574. Ordained on 7 April 1576. Returned to Ingatestone, Essex, England, ministering to covert Catholics and bringing many back to the Church. Worked with Saint Cuthbert Mayne. Arrested for his work in 1577, he was exiled to Douai in 1579. Returned to England in 1581 to resume his work. Betrayed by by John Eliot, a known murderer who made a career of denouncing Catholics and priests for bounty, he was arrested in Warwickshire, tortured several times, accused of plotting to kill the queen based solely on Eliot’s testimony, and executed. One of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales.
Born
- diocese of Petersborough, Northampton, England
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- hanged, drawn, and quartered on 2 April 1582 at Chelmsford, Essex, England
- 29 December 1886 by Pope leo XIII (cultus confirmation)
- 4 May 1970 by Pope Paul VI (decree of martyrdom)
Additional Information
- For All The Saints
- Catholic Encyclopedia
- Hagiography Circle
- New Catholic Dictionary
- Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
- Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints
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