Thomas Pickering
Benedictine lay brother in England, a Catholic martyr of the Popish Plot allegations
Feast: 9 May (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Thomas Pickering (c. 1621 – 9 May 1679) was a Benedictine lay brother who served in England during the time of recusancy in the late seventeenth century. He was martyred as a result of the fraudulent claims of Titus Oates that he was part of a plot to murder King Charles II.
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The miracles
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- Wikidata Q7793159 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Thomas Pickering (martyr) (CC BY-SA)
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