Flower, Richard, Bl.

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FLOWER, RICHARD, BL.

Lay martyr; vere Floyd or Lloyd; alias Graye, Fludd;b. c. 1567 in Anglesey (Diocese of Bangor), North Wales; d. Aug. 30, 1588, hanged at Tyburn (London). Flower, the younger brother of Fr. Owen Lloyd, was arrested in London (1588) and condemned for assisting Fr. William Horner, a seminary priest. He suffered with Bl. Fr. Richard leigh and the blessed laymen Edward Shelley, Richard Martin, John Roche (all beatified in 1929), and St. Margaret ward. He is frequently confused with Fr. William way, who used the alias Flower. Bl. Richard Flower was beatified by Pope John Paul II on Nov. 22, 1987 with George Haydock and Companions.

Feast of the English Martyrs: May 4 (England).

See Also: england, scotland, and wales, martyrs of.

Bibliography: r. challoner, Memoirs of Missionary Priests, ed. j. h. pollen (rev. ed. London 1924). j. h. pollen, Acts of English Martyrs (London 1891).

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