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Blessed William Hart

15 March
29 October as one of the Martyrs of Douai
1 December as one of the Martyrs of Oxford University

Profile

Raised Protestant. Educated at Lincoln College, Oxford. Convert to Catholicism. Studied for the priesthood at Douai, Rheims, and Rome, Italy. Ordained in 1581, he returned to England to minister to covert Catholics. Betrayed by an apostate in the house of Saint Margaret Clitherow. Martyr.

Born

1558 at Wells, England

martyred on 15 March 1583 at York, North Yorkshire, England

29 December 1886 by Pope Leo XIII (cultus confirmed)

Readings

The joy of this life is nothing; the joy of the after life is everlasting.” – Blessed William Hart

Additional Information

Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
Catholic Encyclopedia
Mementoes of the English Martyrs and Confessors, by Father Henry Sebastian Bowden
New Catholic Dictionary
Roman Martyrology
Saints of the Day, by Katherine Rabenstein

books
- A Calendar of the English Martyrs of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
- Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints

other sites in english

sitios en español
- Martirologio Romano, 2001 edición

fonti in italiano
- Martirologio Romano, 2005 edition
- Santi e Beati

MLA Citation

“Blessed William Hart“. CatholicSaints.Info. 30 January 2023. Web. 4 June 2024. <>