About Edward Stransham
Lived 1554 – 1586 (aged 31–32). Edward Stransham was an English catholic priest.
Edward Stransham (c. 1557, Oxford – executed 21 January 1586, Tyburn) was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1929.
Life Stransham was born at Oxford, near the Bocardo Gate, around 1557. He was educated at St John's College, Oxford, becoming B.A. in 1575-6. He arrived at Douai College in 1577, and went with the college to Reims in 1578, but returned to England due to illness. Stransham is described as tall and dark, slightly bearded, and very emaciated.
His beatification took place in 1929, under Pope Pius XI.
Roman Martyrology "In London, in 1586, the blessed martyrs Edward Stransham and Nicholas Wheeler, priests, condemned to death under Queen Elizabeth I because of their priesthood and taken to the gallows at Tyburn."
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Edward Stransham was born in 1554 in Oxford.
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Edward Stransham died in 1586 in Tyburn.
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