Adrian Fortescue (martyr)
- Adrian Fortescue (martyr)
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name=Blessed Adrian Fortescue
birth_date=1476
death_date=death date and age|1539|7|9|1476|7|17|mf=y
feast_day= July 9
venerated_in=Catholic Church
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birth_place=Punsborne, Hertfordshire, England
death_place=Tower Hill, London, England
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beatified_date=13 May 1895
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beatified_by=Pope Leo XIII
canonized_date=pending
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Blessed Sir Adrian Fortescue (1476 — July 9 1539), beatified as a martyr, the son of Sir John Fortescue, was made a Knight of the Bath in 1503, was the cousin of Anne Boleyn and participated in England's wars against France in 1513 and 1523. He was made a Knight of the Order of St. John in 1532. Adrian was also a Dominican Tertiary. On August 29, 1534, he was arrested without any stated reason but was freed after a period of months. [John Hungerford Pollen, [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06146b.htm Bl. Adrian Fortescue] , "Catholic Encyclopedia" 1909] In 1539 he was one of fifty people condemned of treason without a trial by Parliament for unspecified acts presumably relating to hostility to Henry VIII's church policies. He was beheaded at the Tower of London on July 9, 1539.
The Order of St. John of Jerusalem has advocated devotion to Blessed Adrian as a martyr since the 1600s and Leo XII beatified him on May 13, 1895. ["Ibid."]
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