Edward Osbaldeston

Blessed Edward Osbaldeston was an English martyr, born about 1560. was hanged, drawn and quartered at York,November 1594.

Edward Osbaldeston was born about 1560 at Osbaldeston Hall near Blackburn, Lancashire. He was the son of Thomas Osbaldeston, and nephew of Edward Osbaldeston, of Osbaldeston Hall. He went to the English College of Douai, then at Reims, where he was ordained deacon in December, 1583, and priestSeptember 1585. He was sent on the English missionApril 1589, and was apprehended at night through the instrumentality of an apostate priest named Thomas Clark at an inn at Tollerton, Yorkshire, upon St. Jeromes day,September 1594.

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