Blessed Thomas Alfield

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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
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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