Hugh Green (martyr)

Hugh Green (martyr)

Hugh Green was an English Catholic martyr, born about 1584, and executed 19 August 1642.

Green's parents were Protestants and sent him to Peterhouse, the oldest college in Cambridge, where he took his degree in 1605. Afterward, he converted to Catholicism and in 1610 entered Douai College, a center for Catholic studies in the north of France. He left in 1612 to became a chaplain at Chideock Castle, Dorsetshire.

On 8 March 1641, Charles I, to placate the Puritan Parliament of England, issued a proclamation banishing all priests. Green was arrested, tried, and condemned to death in August.

Catholic sources report that in prison his constancy so affected his fellow-captives that two or three women sentenced to die with him sent him word that they would ask his absolution before death. They did so after confessing their sins to the people, and were absolved by the martyr. His executioner was quite unskilled and could not find Green's heart; the butchery, with appalling cruelty, was prolonged for nearly half an hour. After his execution, Puritans of Dorchester reportedly played football with his head.

External links

* [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06776a.htm Catholic Encyclopedia ]


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