Home >> Society >> Religion and Spirituality >> Christianity >> Denominations >> Catholicism >> Saints >> R >> Blessed Robert Anderton Ven. Robert Anderton English priest and friend of William Marsden. The two were shipwrecked, whereupon they were arrested for being priests coming into England from abroad, and tried on the "bloody question." They were hanged, drawn, and quartered in 1586. Blessed Robert Anderton and William Marsden Brief profile of the martyrs, beatified in 1929.
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