Feast day · December 1

Saint Ralph Sherwin

Saint Ralph Sherwin

Saint Ralph Sherwin was an English Roman Catholic priest and martyr, born in 1550. He converted to Catholicism after studying at Oxford and was ordained a priest in 1577. Sherwin returned to England to minister secretly but was arrested and tortured for his faith. He was executed at Tyburn in 1581 and is venerated as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales.

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