Blessed Francis Page
- Memorial
- 20 April
- Profile
- Raised in a Protestant family from Harrow-on-the-Hill, England.
Convert to Catholicism.
Studied at Douai, France where he was ordained in 1600.
Worked in England to minister to covert Catholics who were facing government persecution.
Arrested and sentenced to death for the crime of being a priest.
While he prison he became a Jesuit.
Martyr.
- Born
- Antwerp, Belgium
- Died
- 1602 at Tyburn, England
- Beatified
- 1929
- Canonized
- pending
- Additional Information
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Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
Dictionary of Patron Saints' Names
Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
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