Blessed Edward Shelley
- Memorial
- 30 August
- Profile
- Son of Edward Shelley of Warminghurst, Sussex and Joan of Penshurst, Kent.
Arrested in April 1584 for possessing the banned book My Lord Leicester's Commonwealth, for assisting Blessed William Dean, and for harbouring priests.
Martyr.
- Born
- c.1530 in Sussex, England
- Died
- hanged 30 August 1588 at Tyburn, England
- Beatified
- 1929 by Pope Pius XI
- Canonized
- pending
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