New Catholic Dictionary – Blessed William Eynon

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(or William Onyon) Martyr (1539), died Reading. He was a Benedictine, curate of Saint Giles’s, Reading, and was hanged with Blessed Hugh Farringdon, for refusing the Oath of Supremacy.

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