Blessed Roger James

Memorial: 15 November
Profile: Sub-treasurer of, and the youngest monk in Glastonbury abbey. Arrested for refusing to acknowledge King Henry VIII as head of the Church. Martyred with Blessed John Thorne and Blessed Richard Whiting.
Born: English
Died: hanged in 1539 in Tor Hill, Glastonbury, England
Beatified: 1895
Canonized: pending
Additional Information: Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
New Catholic Dictionary
Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
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