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Ven. John Adams
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or Priest, martyred at Tyburn, 8 October, 1586. He had been a Protestant minister, but being converted, went to Reims in 1579, where he was ordained a priest. He returned to England in March, 1581. Father William Warford, who knew him personally, described him as a man of "about forty years of age, of average height, with a dark beard, a sprightly look and black eyes. He was a very good controversialist, straightforward, very pious, and pre-eminently a man of hard work. He laboured very strenuously at Winchester and in Hampshire, where he helped many, especially of the poorer classes." Imprisoned in 1584, he was banished with seventy-two other priests in 1585; but having returned was again arrested, and executed, with two others, Ven. John Lowe and Ven. Robert Dibdale.
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Obstat, Nihil. Lafort, Remy, Censor. Entry for 'Ven. John Adams'. The Catholic Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tce/v/ven-john-adams.html. Robert Appleton Company. New York. 1914.
