Edward Burden

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The printable version is no longer supported and may have rendering errors. Please update your browser bookmarks and please use the default browser print function instead.

Edward Burden (c.1540–1588)[1] was a sixteenth century recusant priest.

Biography

Born in County Durham, he was a graduate of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.[2] He studied at Duoay College[3] and was ordained a priest in Rheims[4] in 1584.[3] He is probably best known for being one of the Eighty-five martyrs of England and Wales, for, arriving in England in 1586, he was captured two years later and executed by hanging, drawing and quartering[3] in York on 29 November 1588,[4]

He was beatified by Pope John Paul II on 22 November 1987.[5]

See also

References

  1. ^ Ferdinand Holböck (2000). New Saints and Blesseds of the Catholic Church. Ignatius Press. pp. 268–. ISBN 978-0-89870-871-4.
  2. ^ Thomas M. McCoog; Campion Hall (University of Oxford) (1996). The Reckoned Expense: Edmund Campion and the Early English Jesuits : Essays in Celebration of the First Centenary of Campion Hall, Oxford (1896–1996). Boydell & Brewer Ltd. pp. 63–n.93. ISBN 978-0-85115-590-6.
  3. ^ a b c Richard Challoner (1836). Modern British Martyrology: Commencing with the Reformation, A.D. 1535, 26th Henry VIII. to A.D. 1684, 24th Charles II. Keating, Brown. pp. 121–2.
  4. ^ a b Basil Watkins (19 November 2015). The Book of Saints: A Comprehensive Biographical Dictionary. Bloomsbury Academic. p. 196. ISBN 978-0-567-66456-3.
  5. ^ Matthew Bunson; Margaret Bunson; Pope John Paul II; Stephen Bunson (1999). John Paul II's Book of Saints. Our Sunday Visitor Publishing. pp. 287–8. ISBN 978-0-87973-934-8.