A Little Book of English Saints

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Nicholas Ridley, Bishop of London, and Hugh Latimer, Bishop of Worcester, Reformation Martyrs, 1555 Allegedly foundress of Wilton Abbey and half-sister of Ecgberht, [6] king of Wessex and Kent, her existence is unsubstantiated by reliable sources [7] Later laws made illegal the drawing of anyone away from the state church; non-attendance at a Church of England church; raising children with teachers who were not licensed by an Anglican diocesan bishop; and attending or celebrating the Roman Catholic Mass. In 1874 a process was begun, containing 353 names, to which six were added in Rome, making 359. [2] Of those: a b c 'accused (perhaps from religious motives) of treason at Calais' – Lives of the English martyrs, declared, blessed by Pope Leo XIII in 1886 and 1895 – P483

Margaret Clitherow née Middleton (1556–1586), married laywoman of the Diocese of Middlesbrough (North Yorkshire, England) [5] The only list of saints which has survived from the Anglo-Saxon period itself is the so-called Secgan, an 11th-century compilation enumerating 89 saints and their resting-places. [1] Table [ edit ] Name Henry Garnet, Jesuit, executed 1606 ("was he killed ex odio fidei, or was he believed to be guilty of the Powder Plot, by merely human misjudgment, not through religious prejudice?") [15]In the choice of new names economy should be observed and controversial names should not be inserted until they can be seen in the perspective of history. Foxe's Book of Martyrs: 293. John Leaf, burnt with Bradford. Exclassics.com. Retrieved 17 May 2013.

Bullinger approached the history of the medieval church with the assumption that in the era of primitive Christianity, all was very simple and very pure. The elaborations that occurred over succeeding centuries degraded and depraved the pristine simplicity of the religious life. All religions, he believed, were monotheistic in their primordial state, but all showed a tendency to deteriorate into the worship of subsidiary deities or spiritual beings. Footnote 52 It also includes British saints of the Roman and post-Roman period (3rd to 6th centuries), and other post-biblical saints who, while not themselves English, were strongly associated with particular religious houses in Anglo-Saxon England, for example, their relics reputedly resting with such houses. Henry Venn (1725–1797), John Venn (1759–1813), and Henry Venn the younger (1796–1873), priests, evangelical divines a b c d e The Martyrs Memorial, Canterbury. Machadoink.com (16 October 1907). Retrieved 16 August 2012.The 1563 edition of Foxe's Book of Martyrs records that William Dighel was burned at about the same time as Nicholas Sheterden. However, this information is not repeated in subsequent editions of Foxe's work. "Was his omission in subsequent editions due to an accident in the print shop or did Foxe come to doubt his information on Dighel?" Bones originally at Lindisfarne, at various places including Carlisle, Norham, Crayke and Chester-le-Street, before settling at Durham in the late 10th century for the remainder of the Middle Ages [22]

a b c Martyrdom in East Grinstead «Tudor stuff: Tudor history from the heart of England. Tudorstuff.wordpress.com. Retrieved 16 August 2012.Anglo-Norse, of mixed English and Scandinavian extraction characteristic of northern and central England in the later Anglo-Saxon era Foxe's Book of Martyrs: 346. John Fortune, otherwise Cutler. Exclassics.com. Retrieved 26 May 2013.