Bl. Robert Watkinson

Feastday: April 20
Birth: 1579
Death: 1602
 

English martyr. Born at Hemingborough, Yorkshire, he left England and studied at Douai, France, and then Rome in preparation for his ordination in 1602 in Arras, France. Sent home to work for the reconversion of England, he was arrested almost immediately and executed at Tyburn. Robert was hanged, drawn, and quartered on April 20, with Blessed Francis Page. He was beatified in 1929.

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Robert Watkinson Robert Watkinson Birth: 1579 Death: 1602
Birth: 1579 Death: 1602