George Errington (martyr)

The Blessed George Errington of Hurst Castle – from the minor gentry branch of Bingfield, St John Lee, Northumberland – was an English Roman Catholic layman who is honoured as a martyr by the Catholic Church.

For the Catholic bishop George Errington (1804–1886), see George Errington (bishop).

Blessed George Errington
Born	Hurst Castle, Northumberland, England
Died	29 November 1596, York, England
Martyred by	Queen Elizabeth I of England
Means of martyrdom	Hanging, drawing and quartering
Venerated in	Great Britain
Beatified	22 November 1987, by Pope John Paul II
Feast	4 May

Errington was convicted of attempted conversion to the Catholic Church, in a plot by an Anglican minister who claimed interest in this. Convicted of treason for this under the Penal Laws enacted under Queen Elizabeth I, he was condemned to death. For this he suffered hanging, drawing and quartering at York on 29 November 1596. Two years before his own death, Errington had ridden with Father John Boste on his last journey from York to Durham.[1]

Martyred with Errington were the Blesseds Henry Abbot, William Knight and William Gibson, who had all been caught up in the plot by the minister. Except for Abbot who was executed and beatified separately, they were all beatified by Pope John Paul II as among the Eighty-five martyrs of England and Wales.

References

1. http://www.ushaw.ac.uk/news/homily04.doc Archived 13 January 2007 at the Wayback Machine

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "George Errington". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.