August 7th

Blessed Nicholas Postgate

Blessed · Common of Martyrs · York, England · d. 1679

Likewise at York in England, Blessed Nicholas Postgate, priest and martyr, who under King Charles II was hanged on the gallows on account of the priesthood which for about fifty years he had secretly exercised among the poor.

Latin Original

Eboráci item in Anglia, beáti Nicolái Postgate, presbyteri et mártyris, qui sub Cárolo rege Secándo propter sacerdótium, quod quinquagínta círciter annos inter páuperes clam proféssus erat, patíbulo suspénsus est.