August 27 Blessed David Lewis (Charles Baker, alias used to hide from anti-Catholic authorities in Wales) Jesuit priest and Martyr.
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August 27 Blessed David Lewis (Charles Baker, alias used to hide from anti-Catholic authorities in Wales) Jesuit priest and Martyr. 1616 - 1679 . Born at Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales, in 1616; died at Usk, August 27, 1679; beatified in 1929; One of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales. David was the son of a Protestant school teacher and a Catholic mother. Amazingly enough, he was the only one of the nine siblings to have been raised as a Protestant – but that did not last for long. After studying law at the Middle Temple in London, he accompanied a nobleman’s son to the Continental as his tutor. While visiting Paris, David was converted to Catholicism.
August 27 Blessed David Lewis (Charles Baker, alias used to hide from anti-Catholic authorities in Wales) Jesuit priest and Martyr.
August 27 Blessed David Lewis (Charles Baker…
August 27 Blessed David Lewis (Charles Baker, alias used to hide from anti-Catholic authorities in Wales) Jesuit priest and Martyr.
August 27 Blessed David Lewis (Charles Baker, alias used to hide from anti-Catholic authorities in Wales) Jesuit priest and Martyr. 1616 - 1679 . Born at Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales, in 1616; died at Usk, August 27, 1679; beatified in 1929; One of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales. David was the son of a Protestant school teacher and a Catholic mother. Amazingly enough, he was the only one of the nine siblings to have been raised as a Protestant – but that did not last for long. After studying law at the Middle Temple in London, he accompanied a nobleman’s son to the Continental as his tutor. While visiting Paris, David was converted to Catholicism.