Blessed James Fenn
- Memorial
- 12 February
- Profile
- Educated at Corpus Christi College and Gloucester Hall at Oxford University.
Married layman and schoolmaster.
Widower.
He studied at Rheims, France, and was ordained in 1580.
He returned to England to minister to covert Catholics in the area of Somerset.
Arrested for his faith, he was convicted of treason when he remained loyal to Rome and refused to take the Oath of Supremacy.
Martyr.
- Born
- at Montacute, Somerset, England
- Died
- hanged, drawn, and quartered in 1584 at Tyburn, England
- Beatified
- 1929 by Pope Pius XI
- Canonized
- pending
- Additional Information
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Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
Catholic Online
Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
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