St. Edmund Gennings
Dec 10
English Martyr and Priest: 1567 – 1591
One of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales, St. Edmund was born in Lichfield, England amidst the throes of the Protestant Revolution, into a non-Catholic home. At the age of sixteen he became a page to a Catholic gentleman, Richard Sherwood. A thoughtful, serious boy naturally inclined to matters of faith, this appointment proved to be divinely ordained.