Edward Burden Explained
See main article: Eighty-five martyrs of England and Wales. Edward Burden (c.1540–1588)[1] was a sixteenth century recusant priest.
Biography
Born in County Durham, he was a graduate of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.[2] He studied at Duoay College[3] and was ordained a priest in Rheims[4] in 1584.[3] He is probably best known for being one of the Eighty-five martyrs of England and Wales, for, arriving in England in 1586, he was captured two years later and executed by hanging, drawing and quartering[3] in York on 29 November 1588,[4]
He was beatified by Pope John Paul II on 22 November 1987.[5]
See also
Notes and References
- Book: Ferdinand Holböck. New Saints and Blesseds of the Catholic Church. 2000. Ignatius Press. 978-0-89870-871-4. 268–.
- Book: Thomas M. McCoog. Campion Hall (University of Oxford). The Reckoned Expense: Edmund Campion and the Early English Jesuits : Essays in Celebration of the First Centenary of Campion Hall, Oxford (1896–1996). 1996. Boydell & Brewer Ltd. 978-0-85115-590-6. 63–n.93.
- Book: Richard Challoner. Modern British Martyrology: Commencing with the Reformation, A.D. 1535, 26th Henry VIII. to A.D. 1684, 24th Charles II.. 1836. Keating, Brown. 121–2.
- Book: Basil Watkins. The Book of Saints: A Comprehensive Biographical Dictionary. 19 November 2015. Bloomsbury Academic. 978-0-567-66456-3. 196.
- Book: Matthew Bunson. Margaret Bunson. Pope John Paul II. Stephen Bunson. John Paul II's Book of Saints. 1999. Our Sunday Visitor Publishing. 978-0-87973-934-8. 287–8.
