Roger Wrenno

Who they were

Roger Wrenno was a layman who worked as a weaver. The source records that he was put to death for the faith at Lancaster in 1616, at the age of forty. He was beatified on 22 November 1987 by Pope John Paul II among the eighty-five martyrs of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland.

The miracles

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

Why that counted as sanctity

Put to death at Lancaster in 1616 for the Catholic faith.

Connected on this site

• John Thulis Blessed
  “Arrested and held at Lancaster, he escaped with the weaver Roger Wrenno and was recaptured.” — this site's research