John Ingram (Jesuit)
John Ingram (* 1565 ; † July 26, 1594 ) was an English Jesuit and martyr .
Life
He was born during the reign of Elizabeth I (r. 1558-1603) in Stoke Edith, Herefordshire , probably to Anthony Ingram of Wolford , Warwickshire and Dorothy Ingram, daughter of Sir John Hungerford.
He began his education in Worcestershire and attended the New College of St. Mary in Oxford . He then converted to Catholicism and studied at the English College in Reims , the Jesuit College in Pont-à-Mousson and the Pontifical English College in Rome .
In 1589 he was in Rome at the Lateran Basilica ordained and went in the spring of 1592 to Scotland , where he made friends with some powerful people.
On November 25, 1593, he was arrested on the River Tyne and imprisoned and tortured in Berwick , Durham , York and finally in the Tower of London . In London he wrote twenty Latin xenias that have survived to this day.
Ingram was sent north again and imprisoned in York , Newcastle and Durham . In Durham, his case went to court alongside that of John Boste and converted minister George Swallowell . He was convicted under a law that declared the mere presence in England of a priest who was ordained abroad to be treason, even if he had not exercised his priesthood in England. It is said that influential Scots unsuccessfully offered the English government 1000 crowns to save his life.
Ingram was executed in Newcastle upon Tyne (or Gateshead ) on July 26, 1594 .
He was in 1929 by Pope Pius XI. beatified . His feast day in the liturgy is July 24th .
Individual evidence
- ^ John Wainewright - Venerable John Ingram - In: The Catholic Encyclopedia (Volume 8), Robert Appleton Company, New York 1913, 2010
- ^ "Act against Jesuits, Seminary priests and other such like disobedient persons" (27 Eliz. C. 2)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ingram, John |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English Jesuit and martyr |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1565 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stoke Edith, Herefordshire, England |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 26, 1594 |
| Place of death | Newcastle upon Tyne (or Gateshead) |