About William Southerne
Lived 1569 – 1618 (aged 48–49). William Southerne was a catholic priest.
William Southerne (executed at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 30 April 1618) was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1987.
Life
An alumnus and priest of the English College at Douai and the Royal English College, Valladolid, he was born at Ketton, near Darlington, County Durham, and ministered in Northumberland. He was sentenced to death for being a Catholic priest and refusing to take the oath of allegiance and was stripped, hung, drawn and quartered.
Some later accounts, such as Challoner's Missionary Priests (1741-2), give the place of execution as Newcastle-under-Lyme but they appear to confuse Blessed William Southerne with another priest of a similar name who ministered at Baswich, near Stafford, which then belonged to a branch of the Fowler family.
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Who was William Southerne?
British martyr
When was William Southerne born?
William Southerne was born in 1569 in Darlington.
When did William Southerne die?
William Southerne died on 30 April 1618 in Newcastle upon Tyne.
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William Southerne was a catholic priest.
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