Blessed Edward James

Memorial: 1 October
Profile: Raised Protestant. Educated at Saint John's College, Oxford. Converted to Catholicism. Seminarian at Rheims and Rome. Ordained in 1583. Returned to England to spread the faith. 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 in 1588 at Chichester, England
Beatified: 1929 by Pope Pius XI
Canonized: pending
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