Thomas Aufield
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| Born | 1552 Roman Catholic Church |
| Beatified | 1929 |
| Feast | 6 July |
Thomas Aufield (1552 – 6 July 1585), also called Thomas Alfield, was an
He was born in
In September 1580 Aufield returned to the English College, by then at Rheims. He was ordained a priest on 4 March 1581 at Châlons-sur-Marne and later that month set out for the English Mission. He seems to have mostly operated in the North, where he was arrested on 2 May 1582. He was imprisoned in the Tower of London, where he apostatized under torture, returning to Protestantism. Released on bond, he then returned to Gloucester.[3]
By the following April he was again at Rheims, and having returned to Catholicism around the beginning of
On the failure of the negotiations, Aufield returned to England and was arrested for circulating Catholic texts and sent to the Tower, and again put to torture. Aufield was charged under
See also
References
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Ryan, Patrick W. F. (1912). "Ven. Thomas Alfield". In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 14. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
- ^ "Alfield or Awfyld, Thomas (ALFT568T)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ a b c Wainewright, John Bannerman. "Venerable Thomas Alfield", Lives of the English Martyrs, (Edwin H. Burton and J. H. Pollen eds.), London. Longmans, Green and Co., 1914
- ^ Cooper, Thompson. "Thomas Alfield". Dictionary of National Biography, 1885. CatholicSaints.Info. 7 April 2019
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