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Saint Ralph Sherwin (
1550–
1 December 1581) was an
English Roman Catholic martyr and
saint. He was born at
Rodsley,
Derbyshire, and was educated at
Eton College. In
1568, he was nominated by Sir
William Petre to one of the eight
fellowships which he'd founded at
Exeter College, Oxford, probably influenced by Sherwin's uncle, John Woodward, who from
1556 to
1566 had been
rector of
Ingatestone,
Essex, where Petre lived. A talented
classical scholar, Sherwin graduated
Master of Arts on
2 July 1574, and the following year converted to
Roman Catholicism and fled abroad to the English College at
Douai, where he was ordained a priest by the
Bishop of Cambrai on
23 March 1577. On
2 August 1577, he left for
Rome, where he stayed at the
English College, Rome for nearly three years.
On
18 April 1580, Sherwin and thirteen companions left Rome for England. On
9 November 1580, he was arrested while preaching in the house of Nicholas Roscarrock in
London and imprisoned in the
Marshalsea, where he converted many fellow prisoners, and on
4 December was transferred to the
Tower of London, where he was tortured on the rack and then laid out in the snow. He is said to have been personally offered a
bishopric by
Elizabeth I if he apostasised, but refused. After spending a year in prison he was finally brought to trial with
Edmund Campion on a trumped up charge of treasonable conspiracy. He was convicted in
Westminster Hall on
20 November 1581. Eleven days later he was drawn to
Tyburn on a hurdle along with
Alexander Briant, where he was
hanged, drawn and quartered. His last words were "
Jesu, Jesu, Jesu, esto mihi Jesus!"
Sherwin was the first member of the English College in Rome to be martyred. He was
beatified in the late
19th century and
canonised in
1970 as one of the
Forty Martyrs of England and Wales. His feast day is on
1 December, the day of his martyrdom.
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