Blessed William Marsden

Blessed William Marsden was a convert to Catholicism who entered the English College at Rheims, France in 1580 to study for the priesthood. He was ordained at Rheims alongside his friend and fellow missionary Blessed Robert Anderton. The two priests sailed for England to serve as covert missionaries to the persecuted Catholic faithful, but their ship was driven off course and wrecked on the Isle of Wight....