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
Print References: The Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
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