The Forty Martyrs of England and Wales


This feast honors the hundreds of British men and women who died for their faith in wake of the dispute between the Pope and King Henry VIII during the 16th century. Many loyal Catholics were tortured and killed by the British state from 1535 to 1679.

In 1970, the Vatican selected 40 martyrs, men and women, lay and religious, to represent the full group of about 300. Each martyr has their own day of memorial, but they are all remembered as a group on October 25.


The forty martyrs are:

Carthusians
Augustine Webster
John Houghton
Robert Lawrence

Brigittine
Richard Reynolds

Augustinian
John Stone

Jesuits
Alexander Briant
Edmund Arrowsmith
Edmund Campion
David Lewis
Henry Morse
Henry Walpole
Nicholas Owen
Philip Evans
Robert Southwell
Thomas Garnet

Benedictines
Alban Roe
Ambrose Edward Barlow
John Roberts
Friars Observant
John Jones

Franciscans
John Wall
Secular Clergy
Cuthbert Mayne
Edmund Gennings
Eustace White
John Almond
John Boste
John Kemble
John Lloyd
John Pain
John Plesington
John Southworth
Luke Kirby
Polydore Plasden
Ralph Sherwin


Laymen
John Rigby
Philip Howard
Richard Gwyn
Swithun Wells


Lay women
Anne Line
Margaret Clitherow
Margaret Ward

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