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1610–1679 · Reformation · Society of Jesus

William Barrow (alias Waring, alias Harcourt) (1609 – 30 June 1679) was an English Jesuit, executed as a result of the fictitious so-called Popish Plot, that between 1678 and 1681 gripped the Kingdoms of England and Scotland in anti-Catholic hysteria.

1605 · Reformation

William Brown was born in Northamptonshire and was a citizen of England. He died in Ripon in 1605 and is recognized as a blessed.

1549–1584 · Reformation

William Carter (c. 1548 – 11 January 1584) was a Roman Catholic English printer and martyr. William Carter was born in London in 1548, the son of John Carter, a draper, and Agnes, his wife.

1593 · Reformation

William Davies (died 27 July 1593) was a recusant Welsh Roman Catholic missionary who worked as an underground schoolmaster in the Creuddyn Peninsula of North Wales.

1588 · Reformation

William Dean or Deane (died 28 August 1588) was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is one of the Catholic martyrs, beatified in 1929. Son of Thomas B. of Grassington West Riding of Yorkshire William Dean attended schools in Leeds and Clitheroe.

1507–1535 · Reformation · Carthusian Order

William Exmew, O.Cart (died 19 June 1535, Tyburn) was an English Catholic priest and Carthusian hermit. He was hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn and is honoured as a martyr by the Catholic Church.

1555–1582 · Reformation

William Filby (born c. 1557/1560 - 30 May 1582) was an English Roman Catholic priest. He was beatified in 1886. Filby was born in Oxfordshire, England between 1557 and 1560. Educated at Lincoln College, Oxford, he was admitted to the seminary at Reims on 12 October 1579.

1558–1595 · Reformation

William Freeman (c. 1558 – 13 August 1595) was an English Roman Catholic priest during the Reformation. He was convicted of treason and hanged, drawn and quartered at Warwick. He is one of 136 Catholic martyrs who were beatified by Pius XI in 1929.

1548–1596 · Reformation

William Gibson (1548 – 29 November 1596) was a layman from Ripon in Yorkshire, England, a member of a noble Scottish family, who was executed at York for professing the Roman Catholic faith. He is honoured as a martyr by the Catholic Church.

1537 · Reformation · Carthusian Order

The Carthusian Martyrs of London were English monks belonging to the Carthusian Order, most of whom were members of the prestigious London Charterhouse, put to death by Henry VIII between May 4, 1535, and September 20, 1537, for refusing to sign the Act of Supremacy.

1566–1594 · Reformation · Society of Jesus

William Harrington (c. 1566 – 18 February 1594) was an English Jesuit priest. He is a Roman Catholic martyr, and was beatified in 1929. His father had entertained Edmund Campion at the ancestral home, Mount St. John, early in 1581.

1558–1583 · Reformation

William Hart (born at Wells, 1558; executed at York, 15 March 1583) was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1886. Elected Trappes Scholar at Lincoln College, Oxford, 25 May 1571, he supplicated B.A., 18 June 1574.

1557–1588 · Reformation

William Hartley (born at Wyn, in Derbyshire, England, of a yeoman family about 1557; executed 5 October 1588) was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1929. At eighteen he matriculated at St John's College, Oxford, where he became a chaplain.

1614–1680 · Reformation

William Howard, 1st Viscount Stafford, FRS (30 November 1614 – 29 December 1680) was the youngest son of Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel, and his wife, the former Alethea Talbot.

1636–1679 · Reformation · Society of Jesus

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.

1572–1596 · Reformation

William Knight (1572 – 29 November 1596) was an English layman put to death for his Catholic faith at York, England. With him also suffered George Errington of Herst, Northumberland; William Gibson of Ripon; and Henry Abbot of Howden, Yorkshire.

1582 · Reformation

William Lacy (Lacey) (died 1582) was an English Catholic priest and martyr. He and fellow priest Richard Kirkman were executed at York on 22 August 1582. William was born at Houghton (or Tosside, West Riding).

1592 · Reformation

William Patenson (born in Yorkshire or Durham; executed at Tyburn, 22 January 1591–2) was an English Roman Catholic priest and martyr. He was beatified in 1929. He is commemorated on 22 January.

1591 · Reformation

William Pike (died 22 December 1591) was an English Roman Catholic martyr who was beatified in 1987. Several sources state that William was born in Dorset.

1572–1603 · Reformation

William Richardson (1572–1603) was a 16th-century Roman Catholic English martyr. Richardson was born in the village of Wales, West Riding of Yorkshire. He studied for the Roman Catholic priesthood at seminaries in Valladolid and then Seville, both in Spain.

1569–1618 · Reformation

William Southerne (executed at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 30 April 1618) was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1987.

1589 · Reformation

William Spenser (died 24 September 1589) was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1987. Spenser was born at Ghisburn, Yorkshire.

1609–1654 · Reformation · Augustinians

William Tirry (Irish: Liam Tuiridh) OSA (1609 – 12 May 1654) was an Irish Roman Catholic priest of the Order of Saint Augustine following the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.

1560–1641 · Reformation

William Ward (real name Webster) (about 1560 at Thornby in Westmoreland – 26 July 1641 at Tyburn) was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1929.

1584–1650 · Reformation

Zofia Czeska-Maciejowska (1584 – 1 April 1650) was a Polish religious sister and the founder of the Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Czeska was widowed prior to her call into the religious life. Her beatification was celebrated on 9 June 2013.

1444–1504 · Reformation · Franciscans

Blessed Timoteo da Monticchio was a Catholic presbyter and member of the Franciscan order. Born in 1444 in Monticchio, he died in 1504 in Ocre.