March 29th

Blessed John Hambley, Priest and Martyr

Blessed · Common of Martyrs · Salisbury, England · d. c. 1587

At Salisbury in England, the commemoration of Blessed John Hambley, priest and martyr, who, under Queen Elizabeth the First, for the sake of his priesthood, on an unknown day of this month around the Lord’s Easter, conformed himself to the passion of Christ by the sufferings of the gallows.

Latin Original

Sarnsbérie in Anglia, commemorátio beáti Ioánnis Hambley, presbyteri et mártyris, qui, sub Elísabeth regína Prima, propter sacerdótium, die ignóto huius mensis circa Pascha Dómini, patíbuli supplíciis ad Christi passiónem se conformávit.