Blessed William Andleby

Memorial
4 July
Profile
Raised Protestant. Studied at Saint Johns College, Cambridge, England. Soldier. Convert to Catholicism. Studied in Douai, France. Ordained in 1577. Returning to England, he spent 20 years ministering to covert Catholics in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. Arrested for the crime of priesthood. Martyr.
Born
at Eton, England
Died
hanged, drawn, and quartered in 1597 at York, England
Beatified
1929 by Pope Pius XI
Canonized
pending
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