Polydore Plasden

Saint

Polydore Plasden
Detail from a mural in the English Martyrs Parish in Derby. All martyrs shown died on 10 December 1591. From left to right: Saint Swithun Wells, Saint Edmund Gennings, Saint Eustace White, and Saint Polydore Plasden.
Priest and Martyr
Bornc. 1563
London, England
Died10 December 1591 (aged 27 - 28)
Tyburn, London, England
Beatified15 December 1929 by Pope Pius XI
Canonized25 October 1970 by Pope Paul VI
Feast10 December (individual), 25 October (collectively with Forty Martyrs of England and Wales)

Polydore Plasden (1563–1591) was one of the Catholic Forty Martyrs of England and Wales. A native of London, he studied for the priesthood at Rheims and Rome, and was ordained in 1586 before being sent back to England soon after.

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