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: Catholic Online
Print References: The Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
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