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John Southworth (martyr)
English Roman Catholic saint
John Southworth (c. 1592, Lancashire, England - 28 June 1654, Tyburn, London) was an English Catholicmartyr.
He is one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales.
John sudworth biography
History
John Southworth came from a Lancashire family who lived at Samlesbury Hall. They chose to pay heavy fines rather than give up the Catholic faith.[1]
He studied at the English College in Douai, in northern France.
(The college later relocated to St Edmund's College, Ware in Hertfordshire.) In 1585 a law had been passed branding as treasonable any priest who dared to come back to England. The law was later extended to all who assisted such priests.
Southworth was ordained priest before he returned to England 13 October 1619,[2] where he remained until 1624,[1] when he was then recalled to serve as chaplain to Benedictine nuns in Brussels.[3]
After about a year, he returned to Lancashire, where he was arre