Blessed John Ingram Pray For Us
PRAYER FOR THE CANONISATION OF BLESSED JOHN INGRAM:
O God, you gave us Blessed John Ingram to inspire and encourage us.
Grant that we may know the benefit of his prayers so that we, your Church, can give witness to his sanctity.
We make our Prayer through our Lord Jesus. Christ
your Son, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God for
ever and ever. Amen.
Blessed John Ingram - Pray for us.
The Venerable John Ingram (1565–1594) was an English Jesuit and martyr from Stoke Edith, Herefordshire, who was executed in Newcastle-on-Tyne on July 26, 1594, during the reign of Elizabeth I.[1]
Ingram was probably the son of Anthony Ingram of Wolford, Warwickshire, by Dorothy, daughter of Sir John Hungerford.
He began his education in Worcestershire and attended New College, Oxford. He then converted to Catholicism and studied at the English College, Rheims, at the Jesuit College, Pont-a-Mousson, and at the English College, Rome. He was ordained at Rome in 1589; and then, early in 1592, he went to Scotland. There he befriended many powerful people. Captured on the Tyne on 25 November 1593, he was first imprisoned at Berwick; then at Durham, York, and in the Tower of London, where he was severely tortured and wrote twenty Latin epigrams, which survive.
After his ordeal at the Tower, he was sent North again and imprisoned at York, Newcastle, and Durham. There he was tried with John Boste and George Swallowell,
a converted minister. He was convicted under a law, which made the mere
presence in England of a priest ordained abroad high treason, even
though there was no evidence that he had ever acted as a priest while in
England.[2]
There is evidence that someone in Scotland offered the English
Government a thousand crowns to spare Ingram's life, all in vain.
He was executed at Gateshead (or Newcastle-on-Tyne) on July 26, 1594.
He was beatificated in 1929 by Pope Pius XI and his anniversary is the 24th of July. (from Wikipedia)
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