Jun 20

Blessed Thomas Whitbread and companions

June 20th XVII century

In London, in England, blessed martyrs Thomas Whitbread and fellow WIlliam Harcourt, John Fenwich, John Gavan and Anthony Turner, priests of the society of Jesus, who accused falsely of taking part in the conspiracy to assassinate King Charles II, reached the Kingdom of heaven to be executed at Tyburn. Roman martyrology