Sunday, April 22, 2007

Blessed Anthony Page, priest and martyr (c. 1563-1593)

In 1584 Anthony Page, of Harrow-on-the-Hill, England, began his studies for the priesthood in Reims, France. A fellow seminarian describes him as a pious and learned man of extraordinary meekness, modesty, purity, and candor. Following his ordination in Reims in 1591, Father Page set out for England to begin his priestly labors. Immediately upon arriving, he was apprehended by the Elizabethan authorities. He was summarily condemned to death by drawing and quartering for being a priest.

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Blessed Richard Sergeant († 1586)

Following studies at Oxford, Richard Sergeant, of Gloucestshire, England, enrolled as a seminarian at the English College of Reims, France. In 1583, he was ordained to the priesthood in Laon and returned to England to serve the country’s persecuted Catholics. Within three years of arriving, he would be arrested, sentenced to death, and hung, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn, London, dying together with another priest, Blessed William Thomson.
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