Ingleby, Francis, Bl.
INGLEBY, FRANCIS, BL.
Priest, martyr; b. ca. 1551 at Ripley, Yorkshire, England; hanged, drawn, and quartered June 3, 1586 (old calendar) at York. The fourth son of Sir William Ingleby and his wife Lady Anne Malory, Ingleby studied at Brasenose College, Oxford (before 1565), and was a student of the Inner Temple in 1576. He began seminary studies at Rheims in 1582 and was ordained priest at Laon in 1583. About three months later he left France to join the English Mission, where he labored in Yorkshire until he was arrested in the spring of 1586. Upon hearing his sentence of execution, Ingleby exclaimed, "Credo videre bona Domini in terra viventium" ("I believe that I shall see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living."). He was one of the priests to whom St. Margaret clitherow offered refuge in her home. He was beatified by Pope John Paul II on Nov. 22, 1987 with George Haydock and Companions.
Feast of the English Martyrs: May 4 (England).
See Also: england, scotland, and wales, martyrs of.
Bibliography: r. challoner, Memoirs of Missionary Priests, ed. j. h. pollen (rev. ed. London 1924). j. h. pollen, Acts of English Martyrs (London 1891).
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