- Thomas Aufield
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name=Blessed Thomas Aufield
birth_date=1552
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feast_day=6 July
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birth_place=Gloucestershire
death_place=Newgate, Tyburn
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prayer_attrib=The Blessed Thomas Aufield (1552–
6 July 1585 ), also called Thomas Alfield, was an EnglishRoman Catholic martyr . [ [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14663a.htm Ven. Thomas Alfield] -Catholic Encyclopedia article] He was born inGloucestershire and educated atEton College and Cambridge University. He then converted toRoman Catholicism and in 1576 fled to the English College atDouai ,France . He was ordained a priest in 1581 and returned to England to preach in secret. He seems to have mostly operated in the North, where he was arrested on2 May 1582 . He was imprisoned in theTower of London , where he was tortured and apostasised, returning toProtestantism .He was released and repented, fleeing again to Douai to seek help in returning to Catholicism. He returned to England and was again arrested circulating Catholic texts and sent to the Tower, then transferred to Newgate. He was then tried, convicted and hanged at Tyburn alongside his assistant
Thomas Webley , areprieve arriving too late to save him. He wasbeatified in 1929. His feast day is6 July , the date of his martyrdom.References
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