Blessed John Roche
- Also known as
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John Neele;
Neale;
Neele
- Memorial
- 30 August
- Profile
- Waterman, and servent of Saint Margaret Ward.
Helped Father Richard Watson, a condemned priest, escape by meeting him outside the prison with a boat, then changing clothes with him to lead pursuers off his trail.
Condemned to death for aiding a priest, he was offered freedom if he asked the Queen's pardon and promised to go to church; he answered that he had done nothing to offend her Majesty, and it was against his conscience to attend a Protestant church.
One of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales
- Born
- Irish
- Died
- martyred 1588 at Tyburn, London, England;
he was forbidden from speaking from the scaffold for fear he would inspire others
- Name Meaning
- God is gracious; gift of God
- Beatified
- 1929 by Pope Pius XI
- Canonized
- pending
- Patronage
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boatmen,
mariners,
sailors,
watermen
- Representation
- man wearing Elizabethan working man's dress and carrying an oar or small boat
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