Blessed Thomas Ford

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• 28 May

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Received a Master of Arts at Trinity College, Oxford, England on 14 July 1567. Fellow of Trinity College. Left to study at the English College, Douai, France in 1570. Ordained in March 1573 at Brussels, Belgium. Returned to the apostolic vicariate of England on 2 May 1576. Chaplain to Edward Yates and the Bridgettins at Lyford, Berkshire. Arrested on 17 July 1581, he was imprisoned and tortured in the Tower of London, accused and tried for treason as part of a non-existent conspiracy of Catholics against the crown, and executed in the persecutions of Queen Elizabeth I. Martyr.

Born

• Devon, Devonshire, England

Died

• hanged on 28 May 1582 in Tyburn, London, England

Beatified

• 29 December 1886 by Pope Leo XIII

• Catholic Encyclopedia
• other sites in english
  • Catholic Online
  • Hagiography Circle
• siti in italiano
  • Martirologio Romano, 2005 edition
  • Santi e Beati

MLA Citation

• “Blessed Thomas Ford“. CatholicSaints.Info. 23 May 2015. Web. 23 May 2015. <>