Blessed Edward Jones | |
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 Statue of Edward Jones in the church of St Etheldreda, Ely Place, London | |
| Martyr | |
| Born | Llanelidan in Dyffryn Clwyd, Wales |
| Died | 6 May 1590 London |
| Beatified | 15 December 1929 by Pope Pius XI |
| Feast | 6 May |
Edward Jones (died 6 May 1590) was a Welsh martyr of the Roman Catholic Church. He has been beatified in 1926 with the other Douai Martyrs.
He was born in Llanelidan in Dyffryn Clwyd. [1] He was baptised an Anglican in the Diocese of St Asaph. He travelled around Europe, and during his travels he became a Catholic.
In 1587, in Reims, he was received into the Catholic Church. He studied to be a priest at Douai College. On 11 June 1588, he was ordained a priest in Loon. In December 1588, he returned to England and stayed for some time in a grocer's shop in Fleet Street. [1]
In 1590, he was arrested in that shop by Richard Topcliffe, "who pretended to be a Catholic." [1] [2] He was taken to the Tower of London and tortured there. At the Old Bailey "he made a skillful and learned defense, pleading that a confession elicited under torture was not legally sufficient to ensure a conviction. The court complimented him on his courageous bearing". [2] Nevertheless, he was convicted of high treason. Together with Anthony Middleton, he was hanged, drawn and quartered on 6 May 1590, opposite the grocer’s shop where he had been captured; "over the gallows there was placed an inscription: 'For treason and favouring of foreign invasion'. When he [Jones] protested he was thrown off the scaffold ... and the butchery began". [3]
He was beatified on 15 December 1929; his feast day is 6 May. [4]
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