Nicholas Postgate

Blessed Nicholas Postgate was an English Catholic priest. He is one of the 85 English Catholic Martyrs of England and Wales, beatified by Pope John Paul II, in November 1987.

He was born at Kirkdale House, Egton, Yorkshire, England. He entered Douay College, in France,July 1621. Further to that, he took the college oath,March 1623, received minor orders,December 1624, the subdiaconate,December 1627, the diaconate,March 1628, and the priesthood two days later. He was sent to the mission,June 1630, and laboured in England for the Catholic religion, finally settling back to Ugthorpe, not far from his birthplace, in the 1660s. Thomas Ward, who later wrote about him, knew him well.

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