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Detail of A 1614 Illustration of Saint Edmund Gennings From The National Portrait Gallery
Detail of A 1614 Illustration of Saint Edmund Gennings From The National Portrait Gallery

Saint Edmund Gennings

Also known as: Edmund Jennings

Saint
Post-Congregation

Feast Day

December 10

Died

December 1, 10

Canonized

25 October 1970 by Pope Paul VI

Beatified

15 December 1929 by Pope Pius XI

Biography

Saint Edmund Gennings (c. 1560–1591) was an English Catholic priest and martyr, venerated among the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales. Born into a prominent family in England, he converted to the Catholic Faith at the age of seventeen. He pursued his studies and was ordained a priest at the University of Reims in France in 1590....

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