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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.