
Blessed John Mason
Blessed
Post-Congregation
Feast Day
December 10
Died
December 1, 10
Beatified
15 December 1929 by Pope Pius XI
Biography
Blessed John Mason, also known as Blessed John Maskell, was a devout layman from Kendal, Westmoreland, England, born in an era when Catholics faced severe persecution under the English government. Little is known about his early life, but by his adulthood, he found himself in the service of a Mr. Owen in Oxfordshire.