Saint Edmund Gennings

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