Feast November 30
Saint Cuthbert Mayne
Martyr, patron of Launceston · Feast November 30
Biography
Cuthbert Mayne was an English Catholic priest executed under the laws of Elizabeth I. He was the first of the seminary priests trained on the Continent to be martyred. Mayne was beatified in 1886 and canonised as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales in 1970.
Feast day
November 30
Patronage
- Launceston
- Cornwall
Birth date
Baptized 20 March 1543 or 1544
Death date
1577-11-29 (aged 33 or 34)
Canonization status
Canonized
Canonization date
25 October 1970
Canonized by
Pope Paul VI
Feast month
11
Wikidata qid
Q514917
Feast day of month
30