Alexander Rawlins

Blessed Alexander Rawlins was an English Catholic martyr, beatified in 1929.

Life

He was born in Worcestershire. After imprisonment for his Catholic beliefs, he went to Reims for seminary training and was ordained priest. He arrived in England as a missioner in April 1590 with Edmund Gennings and Hugh Sewell.^[1]

He was hanged, drawn and quartered in 1595, alongside Henry Walpole.

His feast is on 7 April.

References

Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, Stephen Bunson (2003), Our Sunday Visitor's encyclopedia of saints, p. 65.

Notes

^ "Gennings, Edmund", on the website of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Subscription or UK public library membership required), http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/10516

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