Forty Martyrs of England and Wales
- Forty Martyrs of England and Wales
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group of Roman Catholic martyrs executed by English authorities during the
Reformation, most during the reign of
Elizabeth I. An act of Parliament in 1571 made it high treason to question the queen's title as head of the Church of England (
England, Church of)—thus making the practice of Roman Catholicism an essentially treasonable act—and authorized the confiscation of the property of Roman Catholics, many of whom fled to the European continent. In the ensuing persecution, 183 English Catholics were put to death between 1577 and 1603; altogether, some 600 Catholics died in the persecutions of the 16th and 17th centuries. Some were executed for offenses as trivial as obtaining a papal license to marry. Forty of these victims were canonized by Pope Paul VI in 1970 as representatives of all the martyrs. In 1987 Pope John Paul II beatified an additional 85 martyrs who died between 1584 and 1689 in England, Scotland, and Wales. Many were priests or members of religious orders, but 59—including seven of those canonized—were lay Catholics. Their designated feast day, October 25, commemorates the date of their canonization.
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