24th July ~ The Durham Martyrs of 1594

In the year 1594 four men in the county of Durham gave their lives for the Church, and they were beatified with other English martyrs in 1929. The first, on February 4, was a layman, Bd JOHN SPEED (alias Spence), who was hanged in the city of Durham for “being aiding and assisting to priests,…
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