15th July 1581: Robert Miller, Edward Cheevers, John O'Lahy & Peter Canavan
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This episode discusses the martyrdom of four Catholic citizens from Wexford in 1581.
(From Rothe’sAnalecta, p.391) THESE were citizens of Wexford and pious Catholics. With the aid of some other Catholic sailors, they had secretly carried over to France a certain Father of the Society of Jesus, and some of the priests and laymen who were driven from their native country on account of their faith. They were seized, put to the torture, and hanged; and when they were only halfdead, they were taken down and quartered, July 5th, 1581. Bruodin[2] says they were executed ...
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