Sunday, May 4, 2014

St Richard


Image of St. Richard Reynolds

Facts

Feastday: May 4
Birth: 1492
Death: 1535

Brigettine martyr of England and one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales. He was born in Devon, England, in 1492 and was educated at Cambridge. In 1513, he entered the Brigettines at Syon Abbey, Isleworth. When King Henry VIII demanded royal oaths,Richard and others opposed the monarch. They were executed at Tyburn. Richard was canonized in 1970.

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