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Blessed Hugh More

28 August
29 October as one of the Martyrs of Douai
1 December as one of the Martyrs of Oxford University

Profile

Educated in England at Oxford and Gray’s Inn. Converted to Catholicism. Studied and was ordained at Rheims, France, then returned to England to minister to covert Catholics during a period of persecution. For this crime he was martyred.

Born

at Grantham, Lincolnshire, England

hanged on 28 August 1588 at Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, England

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

15 December 1929 by Pope Pius XI

Additional Information

books
- Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
- Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints

other sites in english
- Hagiography Circle

sitios en español
- Martirologio Romano, 2001 edición

MLA Citation

“Blessed Hugh More“. CatholicSaints.Info. 17 January 2018. Web. 26 February 2021. <>