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Also known as

• Edmund Jennings

Memorial

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

Profile

Convert to Catholicism at age 17. He studied and was ordained at Rheims, France in 1590. He then returned to England to minister to covert Catholics. One of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales.

Born

• 1567 in Lichfield, Staffordshire, England

Died

• hanged, drawn and quartered on 10 December 1591 at Gray’s Inn Fields, 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 Edmund Gennings“. CatholicSaints.Info. 16 October 2018. Web. 23 January 2022. <>