Saint John Payne

Also known as: John Pain; John Paine
Memorial: 20 April
Profile: Convert. Studied at Douai, France in 1574. Ordained on 7 April 1576. Returned to Ingatestone, Essex, England, ministering to covert Catholics and bringing many back to the Church. Worked with Saint Cuthbert Mayne. Arrested for his work in 1577, he was exiled to Douai in 1579. Returned to England in 1581 to resume his work. Betrayed by by John Eliot, a known murderer who made a career of denouncing Catholics and priests for bounty, he was arrested in Warwickshire, tortured several times, accused of plotting to kill the queen based solely on Eliot's testimony, and executed. One of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales.
Born: diocese of Petersborough, England
Died: hanged, drawn, and quartered on 2 April 1582 at Chelmsford, England
Name Meaning: God is gracious; gift of God (John)
Beatified: 1886
Canonized: 1970 by Pope Paul VI
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