John Haile

Blessed John Haile was an elderly secular priest who was vicar of Isleworth Middlesex in the early 16th century; his significance in history, like that of many of the English martyrs, begins only with the events which led to his death.[1]

Blessed John Haile
Martyr
Died4 May 1535
Venerated inCatholic Church
Beatified29 December 1886, Rome by Pope Leo XIII
Feast4 May

Life

He was a fellow of Kings Hall, Cambridge, and is said to have lived an edifying life.[2] He held the benefice of Chelmsford in Essex before his promotion to Isleworth on the 13th of August, 1521. He was arrested in March 1535 by King Henry VIII's men and accused of the crime of treason for speaking against the King's divorce and remarriage. The information was laid by another priest, Fern of Teddington who was also convicted of treason, but received a pardon. John Haile was executed at Tyburn on 4 May 1535,[3] together with the first Carthusian Martyrs of London and the Bridgettine priest St Richard Reynolds, the confessor of nearby Syon Abbey.[4] He was the first secular priest to suffer for the Catholic Faith under King Henry VIII and be recognised as a martyr and he was beatified on the 29th of December 1886 by Pope Leo XIII with 53 others.

References
  1. Camm, O.S.B., Dom Bede/ Lives of the English Martyrs, London, Longmans, Green and Co., 1914, pp17-26
  2. Monks of Ramsgate. “John Haile”. Book of Saints, 1921. CatholicSaints.Info. 21 October 2013
  3. "The English Martyrs, 4th May", Diocese of Shrewsbury
  4. Stanton, Richard. “Blessed John Haile, Martyr”. Menology of England and Wales, 1887. CatholicSaints.Info. 23 April 2015

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