John Ingram (martyr)

John Ingram (* 1565, † July 26, 1594 ) was an English Jesuit priest and martyr.

Life

He was born during the reign of Elizabeth I (reigned 1558-1603 ) in Stoke Edith, Herefordshire, probably the son of Anthony Ingram of Wolford, Warwickshire and Dorothy Ingram, daughter of Sir John Hungerford.

He began his training in Worcestershire and attended the New College of St. Mary in Oxford. He converted to Catholicism and then studied at the English College at Reims, at the Jesuit College in Pont -à -Mousson and the Pontifical English College in Rome.

In 1589 he was ordained in Rome in the Lateran Basilica and went in the spring of 1592 to Scotland, where he made friends with some powerful people.

On November 25, 1593 he was arrested on the River Tyne and imprisoned and tortured in Berwick, Durham, York and finally in the Tower of London. In London, he wrote twenty Latin Xenia, which have survived to this day.

Ingram was sent north again and imprisoned in York, Newcastle and Durham. In Durham, his case came along with that of John Boste and the converted Minister George Swallowell in court. He was convicted under a law that, as treason declared the mere presence of a priest in England, who was ordained abroad, even if he had not exercised his priesthood in England. It is narrated that influential Scots vain the English government offered 1000 crowns to spare his life.

Ingram was executed on July 26, 1594 in Newcastle upon Tyne (or Gateshead ).

He was in 1929 by Pope Pius XI. beatified. His feast day in the liturgy is July 24.