Saint Eustace White

Saint Eustace White, born in England during the late sixteenth century, embraced the Catholic faith at a cost of permanent estrangement from his anti-Catholic father. In 1584, he commenced studies for the priesthood at the English College in Reims, France, and later in Rome, Italy. He was ordained a priest at the English College in Rome in 1588. Returning to England that same year, he dedicated himself to ministering to the persecuted Catholic community in the west of England, a time of intense religious persecution worsened by the aftermath of the Spanish Armada’s attack on England.