William_Southerne

William Southerne

William Southerne

Add article description

William Southerne (executed at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 30 April 1618) was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1987.

Quick Facts Blessed, Priest and Martyr ...

Life

An alumnus and priest of the English College at Douai and the Royal English College, Valladolid, he was born at Ketton, near Darlington, County Durham, and ministered in Northumberland. He was sentenced to death for being a Catholic priest and refusing to take the oath of allegiance and was stripped, hung, drawn and quartered.

Some later accounts, such as Challoner's Missionary Priests (1741-2), give the place of execution as Newcastle-under-Lyme but they appear to confuse Blessed William Southerne with another priest of a similar name who ministered at Baswich, near Stafford, which then belonged to a branch of the Fowler family.

References

    Attribution
    •  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Ven. William Southerne". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
    Share this article:

    This article uses material from the Wikipedia article William_Southerne, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.