Blessed Richard Whiting
- Memorial
- 15 November
- Profile
- Benedictine monk at Glastonbury.
Educated at Cambridge.
Ordained in 1501.
Abbot of Glastonbury in 1525.
Leader of his house when King Henry VIII seized Church property as part of his usurpation of religious power.
Arrested for refusing to turn his abbey over to the king's men.
Convicted of treason for remaining loyal to Rome.
Martyred with Blessed Roger James and Blessed John Thorne.
- Born
- Wrington, Somerset, England
- Died
- hanged, drawn, and quartered on 1 December 1539 at Tor Hill, Glastonbury, England
- Beatified
- 1895
- Canonized
- pending
- Additional Information
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Catholic Online
New Catholic Dictionary
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- The Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
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