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
- Additional Information
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Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
Catholic Online
Dictionary of Saints, by John Delaney
For All The Saints, by Katherine Rabenstein
New Catholic Dictionary
Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
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