Blessed Richard Kirkman
- Memorial
- 22 August
- Profile
- Studied at Douai, France; ordained in Rheims, France in 1579.
Returned to England to minister to covert Catholics.
Tutor for Richard Dymake’s family in Scrivelsby.
Arrested near Wakefield in 1582 for the treason of not accepting the Queen as head of the Church.
Martyr.
- Born
- Addingham, Yorkshire, England
- Died
- hanged, drawn and quartered in 1582 at York, England
- Beatified
- 1886 by Pope Leo XIII
- Canonized
- pending
- Additional Information
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For All The Saints, by Katherine Rabenstein
Catholic Online
New Catholic Dictionary
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