John Thulis

John Thulis (also spelt Thules, Thewlis) (c. 1568 18 March 1616) was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1987.

Blessed

John Thulis
Martyr
Bornbaptized 28 December 1568
Up Holland, Lancashire
Died18 March 1616 (aged 48)
Lancaster, England
Venerated inRoman Catholic Church
Beatified22 November 1987 by Pope John Paul II
Feast18 March (individual with Wrenno)
7 August (one of the Lancaster Martyrs)
22 November (together with Eighty-five martyrs of England and Wales)
29 October (one of the Douai Martyrs)
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Life

Thulis was born at Up Holland, Lancashire, probably about 1568. His baptism is recorded in the Whalley Parish Register on the 28th of December, 1568, the son of William. He arrived at the English College, Reims, on 25 May 1583, and received tonsure from Cardinal Louis de Guise on 23 September following. He left for Rome, on 27 March 1590, where he was ordained priest, and was sent on the English mission in April 1592.

He seems to have been a prisoner at Wisbech Castle, Cambridgeshire, when he signed the letter of 8 November 1598, in favour of the institution of the archpriest, and the letter of 17 November 1600, against it. Later he worked in Lancashire, where he was arrested by William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby, and was committed to Lancaster Castle.

A metrical account of his martyrdom, as well as portions of a poem composed by Thulis, were printed by John Hungerford Pollen in his Acts of the English Martyrs (London, 1891), 194-207.

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