06 works, Today, August 8th, is Martyr John Felton’s day, his story illustrated #220

John Felton (died 8 August 1570) was an English Catholic martyr, executed during the reign of Elizabeth I.

Felton was a wealthy man of Norfolk ancestry, who lived at Bermondsey Abbey, a mansion built out of the materials of a great Cluniac monastery. He “was a man of stature”. His wife had been a playmate of Elizabeth I, a maid-of-honour to Queen Mary. John Felton was a well-known Catholic.

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