Saint Edmund Gennings
Also known as: Edmund Jennings
Feast Day
10 December; 25 October as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales; 29 October as one of the Martyrs of Douai
Born
1567 in Lichfield, Staffordshire, England
Died
Hanged, drawn and quartered on 10 December 1591 at Gray’s Inn Fields, Tyburn, London, England
Canonized
25 October 1970 by Pope Paul VI
Beatified
15 December 1929 by Pope Pius XI
Venerated
8 December 1929 by Pope Pius XI (decree of martyrdom)
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. Determined to serve his persecuted coreligionists, he immediately returned to England, where Catholics practiced their faith in secret under severe penal laws. For nearly a year, he courageously
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