Feast August 28
Saint Edmund Arrowsmith
Martyr, patron of Lancaster · Feast August 28
Biography
Edmund Arrowsmith, SJ was one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales of the Catholic Church. The main source of information on Arrowsmith is a contemporary account written by an eyewitness and published a short time after his death. This document, conforming to the ancient style of the "Acts of martyrs" includes the story of the execution of another 17th-century recusant martyr, Richard Herst.
Feast day
August 28
Patronage
- Lancaster
Birth date
c. 1585
Death date
28 August 1628 (aged 42 - 43)
Canonization status
Canonized
Canonization date
25 October 1970
Canonized by
Pope Paul VI
Feast month
8
Wikidata qid
Q1285954
Feast day of month
28
