Gennings, Edmund and John

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• Edmund and John Jennings —     Edmund and John Gennings     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Edmund and John Gennings     The first, a martyr for the Catholic Faith, and the second, the restorer of the English province of Franciscan friars, were brothers and converts to the… …   Catholic encyclopedia

• John Gennings — (c. 1570 ndash; November 12, 1660 in Douai) was an Englishman who was converted to Catholicism through the martyrdom of his elder brother Saint Edmund Gennings during the English Reformation.ref|RC He restored the English province of Franciscan… …   Wikipedia

• Edmund Gennings — Saint Edmund Gennings (1567 ndash;10 December 1591) was an English martyr, who was executed during the English Reformation for being a Catholic priest. He came from Lichfield, Staffordshire. His name is sometimes spelled Jennings. Edmund was a… …   Wikipedia

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• Ven. Smithin Wells —     Ven. Smithin Wells     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Ven. Smithin Wells     English martyr, born at Brambridge, Hampshire, about 1536; hanged at Gray s Inn Lane, London, opposite his own house, 10 December, 1591. He was the youngest of the five… …   Catholic encyclopedia

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