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Memorial

• 10 December
• 25 October as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales

Profile

Married layman teacher in the apostolic vicariate of England. Martyred in the persecutions of Queen Elizabeth I for having provided shelter to priests, noteably Saint Edmund Gennings and Saint Polydore Plasden, hiding from the anti–Catholic authorities, and for permitting Mass to be celebrated in his house.

Born

• 1536 in Bambridge, Hampshire, England

Died

• hanged, drawn and quartered on 10 December 1591 in Tyburn, London, England

Venerated

• 8 December 1929 by Pope Pius XI (decree of martyrdom)

Beatified

• 15 December 1929 by Pope Pius XI

Canonized

• 25 October 1970 by Pope Paul VI

MLA Citation

• “Saint Swithun Wells“. CatholicSaints.Info. 31 December 2018. Web. 18 January 2019. <>