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
Print References: Dictionary of Patron Saints' Names
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