Polydore Plasden
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St Polydore Plasden, one of the Catholic Forty Martyrs of England and Wales. A native of London, he studied for the priesthood at Rheims and Rome and was ordained in 1586 before being sent back to England soon after. He was taken prisoner with St. Edmund Gennings. Polydore was hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn. Beatified in 1929, he was canonized in 1970 by Pope Paul VI as one of the Forty Martyrs.
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