
Saint Thomas Garnet
Saint
Post-Congregation
Feast Day
June 23
Died
June 1, 23
Canonized
25 October 1970 by Pope Paul VI
Beatified
15 December 1929 by Pope Pius XI
Biography
Saint Thomas Garnet, born in 1574 in Southwark, England, was a Catholic priest and one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales. He was born into a devout Catholic family, his father being Richard Garnet, an Oxford don, and his uncle being Henry Garnet, the superior of all Jesuits in England and in charge of a network of covert priests. As a young boy, Thomas served as a court page to the Count of Arundel....