John Ingram (martyr)

Not the same as John Ingram

John Ingram (1565 – 26 July 1594) was an English Jesuit and martyr from Stoke Edith, Herefordshire, who was executed in Gateshead on 26 July 1594, during the reign of Elizabeth I.

He was beatified in 1929 by Pope Pius XI and his anniversary is 24 July. Each year, in cooperation with the Anglican Community of Gateshead, a commemorative walk in honor of Blessed John Ingram takes place on the Sunday nearest 26 July.

John Ingram, an adult convert to Catholicism, was not the son of Anthony Ingram, Esq., of Little Wolford, by his wife, Dorothy Ingram

He was a young priest who secretly served Catholics on either side of the Scottish border. Captured at Wark in Northumberland having crossed into England over the River Tweed 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 survived. Sentenced to death at Durham assizes in 1594. He was then executed at Gateshead on 26 July - hanged, drawn and quartered. He was only twenty-nine years old.

References

• Wainewright, John. "Venerable John Ingram." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 8. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910. 7 Mar. 2022 <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08008a.htm>.
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ingram_%28martyr%29
• “Blessed John Ingram“. CatholicSaints.Info. 23 January 2022. Web. 8 March 2022. <https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-john-ingram/>
• “The Feast of the English Martyrs.” < PDF >
• “The writing on the wall? John Ingram’s verse and the dissemination of Catholic prison writing.” Alison Shell. British Catholic History 33:1 (May 2016) < PDF >
• “The Blessed Martyrs of Douai College.” < link > A group of 160 priests trained at the English College of Douai, in France. They were martyred in England and Wales during the century following the foundation of the famed college by Cardinal William Allen in 1568.
• “ Forty Martyrs of England & Wales.” < link > The group of Roman Catholic martyrs executed by English authorities during the Reformation, most during the reign of Elizabeth I.
• “John Ingram Priest and Martyr 1565-1594.” Father Paul J. Zielinski. (2019) < link >