Saint Luke Kirby

Memorial: 30 May
25 October as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales
Profile: Educated at Cambridge. Converted to Catholicism in Louvain. Seminarian at Douai College in 1576. Ordained at Cambrai, France in September 1577. Took vows at the English College, Rome, on 23 April 1579. Returned to England to minister to covert Catholics. When he arrived in Dover in June 1580 he was arrested for the crime of being a priest. Transferred to the Tower of London on 4 December 1580. Tortured. Condemned to death on 17 November 1581, he spent several more months in prison, the last few weeks in chains. One of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales.
Born: c.1549 in northern England
Died: martyred 30 May 1582 at Tyburn, England
Beatified: 1888
Canonized: 1970, by Pope Paul VI
Additional Information: Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
Catholic Encyclopedia, by John B Wainewright
New Catholic Dictionary
Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
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