Saint Edmund Gennings
Also known as: Edmund Jennings
Feast Day
December 10
Died
December 1, 10
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)
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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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