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William Ireland
English Jesuit and Catholic martyr
Feast: 24 January (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
William Ireland (1636 – 24 January 1679) was an English Jesuit and martyr from Lincolnshire. He was falsely accused of conspiring to murder King Charles II during the Popish Plot hysteria, and was executed on 24 January 1679. He was beatified in 1929 by Pope Pius XI and his feast day is celebrated on 24 January, the day of his death.
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The miracles
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Why that counted as sanctity
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- Wikidata Q8012826 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — William Ireland (Jesuit) (CC BY-SA)
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