Saint Richard Gwyn

Also known as: Richard White
Memorial: 17 October
Profile: Cambridge educated. Teacher. Renounced Protestantism, and converted. Imprisoned and martyred for his profession of faith. While in jail, he wrote religious poetry in Welsh. One of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales
Born: 1537 at Llanidloes, Powys, Wales
Died: martyred in 1584 at Wrexham
Canonized: 1970
Patronage: large families
parents of large families
torture victims
Additional Information: Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
Vietnamese Eucharistic Youth Society
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