Blessed Richard Featherstone
- Memorial
- 30 July
- Profile
- Educated at Cambridge.
Tutor to Princess Mary Tutor.
Archdeacon of Brecknock.
Chaplain to Queen Catherine of Aragon, wife of King Henry VIII.
He defended Catherine in convocation; charged and found guilty of treason.
Martyred with
Blessed Thomas Abel and
Blessed Edward Powell.
- Born
- English
- Died
- hanged, drawn, and quartered on 30 July 1540 at Smithfield, England
- Beatified
- 29 December 1886 by Pope Leo XIII
- Canonized
- pending
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For All The Saints, by Katherine Rabenstein
Catholic Online
New Catholic Dictionary
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- Dictionary of Saints, by John Delaney
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