Edward Burden

Main article: Eighty-five martyrs of England and Wales

Edward Burden (c.1540–1588)[1] was a sixteenth century recusant priest.

Biography

Born in County Durham, he was a graduate of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.[2] He studied at Duoay College[3] and was ordained a priest in Rheims[4] in 1584.[3] He is probably best known for being one of the Eighty-five martyrs of England and Wales, for, arriving in England in 1586, he was captured two years later and executed by hanging, drawing and quartering[3] in York on 29 November 1588,[4]

He was beatified by Pope John Paul II on 22 November 1987.[5]

See also

References

  1. ^ Ferdinand Holböck (2000). New Saints and Blesseds of the Catholic Church. Ignatius Press. pp. 268–. ISBN 978-0-89870-871-4.
  2. ^ Thomas M. McCoog; Campion Hall (University of Oxford) (1996). The Reckoned Expense: Edmund Campion and the Early English Jesuits : Essays in Celebration of the First Centenary of Campion Hall, Oxford (1896–1996). Boydell & Brewer Ltd. pp. 63–n.93. ISBN 978-0-85115-590-6.
  3. ^ a b c Richard Challoner (1836). Modern British Martyrology: Commencing with the Reformation, A.D. 1535, 26th Henry VIII. to A.D. 1684, 24th Charles II. Keating, Brown. pp. 121–2.
  4. ^ a b Basil Watkins (19 November 2015). The Book of Saints: A Comprehensive Biographical Dictionary. Bloomsbury Academic. p. 196. ISBN 978-0-567-66456-3.
  5. ^ Matthew Bunson; Margaret Bunson; Pope John Paul II; Stephen Bunson (1999). John Paul II's Book of Saints. Our Sunday Visitor Publishing. pp. 287–8. ISBN 978-0-87973-934-8.