John Plessington
English martyr
Feast: 19 July (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
John Plessington (c. 1637 – 19 July 1679), also known as John Plesington, William Scarisbrick and William Pleasington, was an English Catholic priest who was executed by the English Crown for violating the ban on the presence of Catholic priests in the kingdom. He is now venerated as a saint, honored as one of the Catholic Forty Martyrs of England and Wales.
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The miracles
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Why that counted as sanctity
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- English Wikipedia — John Plessington (CC BY-SA)
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