August 28th

Blessed William Dean and Companions, Martyrs of London

Blessed · Common of Martyrs · London, United Kingdom

At London in England, the blessed martyrs William Dean, priest, and seven companions, who for the kingdom of God, under Queen Elizabeth I, completed their martyrdom by hanging on the same day, but in various places of the city or its environs.

Their names are: the priests William Gunter, Robert Morton, Thomas Holford, and James Claxton; Thomas Felton, a cleric of the Order of Friars Minor; and the laymen Henry Webley and Hugh More.

Latin Original

Londínii in Anglia, beatórum mártyrum Guliélmi Dean, presbyteri, et septem sociórum,’? qui pro regno Dei sub Elísabeth regína Prima eódem die, sed in divérsis locis civitátis vel 1n. propínquis, suspéndio martyrium consummárunt.