Blessed Thomas Alfield
- Memorial
- 6 July
- Profile
- Educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge.
Convert to Catholicism.
Studied at Douai and Rheims, France.
Ordained in 1581.
Returned to England to minister to covert Catholics.
Arrested, condemned for treason, and executed for the crimes of priesthood and distributing the booklet True and Modest Defense.
- Born
- Gloucester, England
- Died
- hanged in 1585 at Tyburn, England
- Beatified
- 1929
- Canonized
- pending
- Additional Information
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Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
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