John Kearney

Who they were

The Roman Martyrology for 11 March places him at Clonmel in Ireland, a priest of the Order of Friars Minor and martyr who, condemned to death for crossing England as a priest, escaped the sentence by flight, and was afterwards accused a second time, under the government of Oliver Cromwell, of exercising the priesthood in his own country and was hanged.

The miracles

As a martyr he was raised to the altars without a miracle.

Why that counted as sanctity

Hanged at Clonmel for exercising the priesthood in Ireland.