George Douglas (martyr)

George Douglas (c. 1540^[1]-1587) was one of the Eighty-five martyrs of England and Wales.^[2]

Born in Edinburgh, he was originally a teacher by profession.^[3] His family were from Bonjedward near Jedburgh in the Scottish Borders.^[1]

Converting to Catholicism, he travelled to France around 1556^[1] where he was ordained a secular priest^[4] in Notre Dame, Paris, in 1574- possibly at the testimonial of Mary, Queen of Scots.^[1] Returning to the north of England, he was a priest in York,^[3] where it seems he was 'apparelled in course canvas dublit and hose,' and in the East Midlands as well.^[5] Captured and found guilty in York of 'persuading the Queen's subjects away' from Protestantism,^[6] he was executed on 9 September 1587.^[3]

He was beatified by Pope John Paul II on 22 November 1987.^[2]

See also

• Patrick Hamilton (martyr)
• George Wishart
• List of Protestant martyrs of the Scottish Reformation
• Saint John Ogilvie
• Forty Martyrs of England and Wales
• List of Catholic martyrs of the English Reformation
• John Black (martyr)
• William Gibson (martyr)
• John Ingram (martyr)
• Patrick Primrose
• Hugh Barclay of Ladyland, David Graham, Laird of Fintry, Spanish blanks plot
• Alexander Cameron (priest)

References

1. "Lives of the English martyrs". Retrieved 14 October 2016.
2. Matthew Bunson; Margaret Bunson; Pope John Paul II; Stephen Bunson (1999). John Paul II's Book of Saints. Our Sunday Visitor Publishing. pp. 287–. ISBN 978-0-87973-934-8.
3. Basil Watkins (19 November 2015). The Book of Saints: A Comprehensive Biographical Dictionary. Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 196–. ISBN 978-0-567-66456-3.
4. "Lives of the English martyrs". Retrieved 14 October 2016.
5. Thomas, P.V., 'Privy Council And 'Vagarant Runagate' Priests in Elizabethan York,' The Yorkshire Archaeological Journal 69 (1997), 184.
6. Richard Challoner (1836). Modern British Martyrology: Commencing with the Reformation, A.D. 1535, 26th Henry VIII. to A.D. 1684, 24th Charles II. Keating, Brown. pp. 151–.