Swithun Wells was an English Roman Catholic martyr who was executed during the reign of Elizabeth I. Wells was a country gentleman and one time schoolmaster whose family sheltered hunted priests. He himself often arranged passage from one safehouse to another. His home in Gray's Inn Lane was known to welcome recusants.

October 25

c. 1536

1591-12-10 (aged 54 - 55)

Canonized

25 October 1970

Pope Paul VI

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