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Detail From A Painting Of Blessed Adrian By Edward Caruna Dingli Museum Of The Order Of Saint John Malta
Detail From A Painting Of Blessed Adrian By Edward Caruna Dingli Museum Of The Order Of Saint John Malta

Blessed Adrian Fortescue

Blessed
Post-Congregation

Feast Day

July 9

Died

July 1, 9

Beatified

13 May 1895 by Pope Leo XIII (cultus confirmation)

Biography

Blessed Adrian Fortescue, also known as Adrian Fortescue, was born in 1476 in Punsborne, Hertfordshire, England, to the noble Fortescue family. He was the son of Sir John Fortescue and a cousin of Anne Boleyn, who would later become the second wife of King Henry VIII.

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