Blessed Stephen Rowsham

Also known as

Stephen Rouse
Stephen Rowsam

11 August
29 October as one of the Martyrs of Douai
22 November as one of the Martyrs of England, Scotland and Wales
1 December as one of the Martyrs of Oxford University
3 April on some calendars

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Studied at Oriel College, Oxford University. Anglican vicar of Saint Mary the Virgin, Oxford, England. Convert to Catholicism. Studied at the Douai College in Rheims, France. Ordained a priest in 1582 at Soissons, France. He then returned to England to minister to covert Catholics during a period of persecution. He was soon arrested for the crime of priesthood, and exiled. When he returned to England he was arrested again, convicted again, and executed. Martyr.