Charles Mahoney (martyr) facts for kids
Quick facts for kids BlessedCharles Mahoney OFM |
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| Religious, priest and martyr | |
| Born | ca. 1640 Kingdom of Ireland |
| Died | 12 August 1679 Ruthin, Denbighshire, Wales, Kingdom of England |
| Venerated in | Catholic Church (United Kingdom) |
| Beatified | 22 November 1997 by Pope John Paul II |
| Feast | 4 May |
Charles Mahoney, O.F.M., (or Mahony; alias Charles Meehan; c. 1640 – 12 August 1679) was an Irish Franciscan friar who is honoured as a Catholic martyr, one of the Eighty-five martyrs of England and Wales beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1987. His feast day, together with that of the other martyrs, is celebrated on 4 May.
Life
Mahoney belonged to the Irish Province of the Order of Friars Minor and spent some of 1676 at St Isidore's College in Rome, headquarters of the province in exile. Attempting to return to Ireland from the continent where he had been ordained a Catholic priest, he was shipwrecked and landed in Wales. He was arrested in 1678 and imprisoned at Denbigh. He went on trial the following year at Ruthin in northern Wales where he was condemned and hanged.
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