Richard Leigh (martyr)
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Blessed Richard Leigh (c. 1561 – 1588) was an English martyr born in Cambridgeshire.
He studied in Reims and Rome and was ordained in Rome in 1586. On his return to England he was arrested in London and banished. He returned to England again and was imprisoned in the Tower of London in 1588. He was condemned for being a priest and executed at Tyburn on 30 August 1588, with five others who have been declared venerable: Edward Shelley, Richard Martin, John Roche, Richard Lloyd (alias Flower) and Margaret Ward.[1]
Leigh was beatified in 1929.
References
- Richard Leigh Catholic Online article
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