CADWALADR
,
ROGER
(
1566
-
1610
),
seminary priest and martyr
.
He was b. at
Stretton Sugwas, Herefords.
He entered the seminary at
Reims
in
1590
, and was made
priest
at
Valladolid
in
1593
. His mission area was the
southern Marches
, where he was arrested in
1610
. He had sided with the
Appellant group of priests
,
1600-03
, against the other clergy and the
Jesuits
, but subsequently altered his views, and was visited in prison by the
Jesuit Superior
,
Fr.
Robert
Jones
, the day he was condemned to death. It was
Fr.
Jones
who wrote, in
Italian
, an account of his
execution
at
Leominster
,
27 Aug. 1610
.
Sources:
-
Catholic Record Society
, xxx, 22;
-
Foley
,
Records of the English province of the Society of Jesus (1570-1800)
iv, 389-391;
-
Challoner
,
Memoirs of Missionary Priests, … and of
other Catholics, … that have suffered death in England, on
religious accounts, from … 1577 to 1684
(
1924
ed.), 299-306.
Author:
John Martin Cleary, Cardiff
