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English Cistercian and Confessor the Faith (d. 1585)

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Cistercian, Confessor of the Faith; died in Hull Castle, 18 April, 1585. His name has been included in the supplementary process of the English Martyrs, and his case is of special interest as an example of the sufferings endured in the Elizabethan prisons. He came from Cheshire, and had been a monk in the time of Henry VIII; but the name of his abbey has not been identified, nor his fate determined during and after its suppression. The long-drawn sufferings, however, amid which he closed his days are set forth in a relation printed by Foley. From this we see that the courageous, patient old priest, after many sufferings in prison, was left in extreme age to pine away under a neglect that was revolting.

FOLEY, Records S.J., III, 247; MORRIS, Troubles of our Catholic Forefathers, III, 321.

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APA citation. Pollen, J.H. (1907). John Almond. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01328c.htm

MLA citation. Pollen, John Hungerford. "John Almond." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 1. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1907. <https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01328c.htm>.

Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. March 1, 1907. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., Censor. Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.

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