Alexander Crow (martyr)

Alexander Crow (died 1586/7) was born in Yorkshire[1] around 1550.[2] He took up an early trade as a shoemaker,[3] but in his twenties he travelled to Rheims, France, and trained as a priest at Duoay College, being ordained in 1584.[1]

He returned to the north of England to continue his mission, until he was arrested in South Duffield[1] whilst baptising a baby.[3] Taken to York, he was hanged, drawn and quartered on 30 November 1586 or 1587.[1] Sources conflict as to the year of his death, whether it was 1586 or a year later, 'being about the year of thirty five,'[4]

One of the Eighty-five martyrs of England and Wales, he was beatified by Pope John Paul II on 22 November 1987.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Matthew Bunson; Margaret Bunson; Pope John Paul II; Stephen Bunson (1999). John Paul II's Book of Saints. Our Sunday Visitor Publishing. pp. 287–. ISBN 978-0-87973-934-8.
  2. ↑ Ferdinand Holböck (2000). New Saints and Blesseds of the Catholic Church. Ignatius Press. pp. 266–. ISBN 978-0-89870-871-4.
  3. 1 2 Basil Watkins (19 November 2015). The Book of Saints: A Comprehensive Biographical Dictionary. Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 196–. ISBN 978-0-567-66456-3.
  4. ↑ Richard Challoner (1836). Modern British Martyrology: Commencing with the Reformation, A.D. 1535, 26th Henry VIII. to A.D. 1684, 24th Charles II. Keating, Brown. pp. 151–.
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