CADWALADR, ROGER (1566 - 1610), seminary priest and martyr
Date of birth: 1566
Date of death: 1610
Gender: Male
Occupation: seminary priest and martyr
Area of activity: Religion
Author: John Martin Cleary
He was born at Stretton Sugwas, Herefordshire. He entered the seminary at Reims in 1590, and was made priest at Valladolid in 1593. His mission area was the southern Marches, where he was arrested in 1610. He had sided with the Appellant group of priests, 1600-03, against the other clergy and the Jesuits, but subsequently altered his views, and was visited in prison by the Jesuit Superior, Fr. Robert Jones, the day he was condemned to death. It was Fr. Jones who wrote, in Italian, an account of his execution at Leominster, 27 August 1610.
Author
- John Martin Cleary
- Catholic Record Society, xxx, 22
- Foley, Records of the English province of the Society of Jesus (1570-1800) iv, 389-391
- Challoner, Memoirs of Missionary Priests, … and of other Catholics, … that have suffered death in England, on religious accounts, from … 1577 to 1684 (1924 ed.), 299-306
Sources
- Wikipedia Article: Roger Cadwallador
Further Reading
Published date: 1959
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