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Bl. William Harcourt

Bl. William Harcourt

Bl. William Harcourt

Feastday: June 20
1609 - 1679

Jesuit martyr of England, also called William Barrows. Born in Lancashire in 1609, he studied at St. Omer, France, where in 1632 he became a Jesuit. Returning to England in 1645, he labored in London on behalf of the Catholic mission for more than thirty years. Condemned falsely for complicity in the so-called Popish Plot, he was executed at Tyburn with five other Jesuits, He was beatified in 1929.

 
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  1. Sheila Dawson
    1 year ago

    It appears that we may be descendants of the Blessed William Harcourt so this is very intersting.

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