Edward Burden

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Priest, martyr and blessed of the Roman Catholic Church

was

Cleric Martyr Priest

Gender

Male

Religion(s):

Catholic church

Birth

1540

Death

1588

Age

48 years

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Biography

Edward Burden (c.1540–1588) was a sixteenth century recusant priest. Born in County Durham, he was a graduate of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He studied at Duoay College and was ordained a priest in Rheims in 1584. He is probably best known for being one of the Eighty-five martyrs of England and Wales, for, arriving in England in 1586, he was captured two years later and executed by hanging, drawing and quartering in York on 29 November 1588,

He was beatified by Pope John Paul II on 22 November 1987.

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