Saint Cuthbert Mayne
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- Memorial
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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.
Protomartyr of English seminaries.
One of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales.
- Born
- 1544 at Youlston, Devonshire, England
- Died
- hanged, drawn, and quartered on 25 November 1577;
relics at the Carmelite convent, Lanherne, Cornwall, England
- Venerated
- 8 December 1929
- Beatified
- 15 December 1929
- Canonized
- 25 October 1970 by Pope Paul VI
- Additional Information
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New Catholic Dictionary
Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
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