Blessed Hugh Faringdon
![[Saint Hugh stained glass window]](sainth6i.jpg "36kb jpg photograph of a stained glass window of Saint Hugh from the Saint Meinrad Abbey, Saint Meinrad, Indiana, USA; thanks to Novice Shawn Henderson; pray for his vocation and novitiate; please do not write to ask about the image")
- Also known as
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Hugh Cook;
Hugh Farrington
- Memorial
- 15 November
- Profile
- Abbot in Reading, England in 1520.
Royal chaplain, member of Parliament, and close friend of King Henry VIII.
When Henry split with Rome and ordered the dissolution of religious houses, Hugh refused to surrender his abbey.
He was convicted of treason, and martyred with Blessed John Rugg and Blessed John Eynon.
- Born
- in Faringdon, Berkshire, England as Hugh Cook
- Died
- martyred in 1539 at Reading, England
- Beatified
- 1895
- Canonized
- pending
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