Blessed Sebastian Newdigate
Feast Day
19 June; 4 May as one of the Carthusian Martyrs
Born
Harefield, Middlesex, England
Died
Hanged, drawn, and quartered on 19 June 1535 at Tyburn, London, England
Beatified
29 December 1886 by Pope Leo XIII
Biography
Blessed Sebastian Newdigate, also known as Blessed Sebastian Newdigate of Harefield, was born in Harefield, Middlesex, England. He belonged to a devout family, being the younger son of John Newdigate, a king's sergeant, and Amphelys, the daughter and heiress of John Nevill of Sutton, Lincolnshire. Blessed Sebastian's sister chose the religious life and became a Dominican nun at the convent in Dartford, England.
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