Saint John Jones
| Saint John Jones, O.F.M. | |
|---|---|
| Forty Martyrs of England and Wales | |
| Born | unknown Clynnog Fawr, Wales |
| Died | 12 July 1598 |
| Venerated in | Roman Catholicism |
| Beatified | 1929, Rome by Pope Pius XI |
| Canonized | 25 October 1970, Rome by Pope Paul VI |
| Major shrine | Pontoise |
| Feast | 12 July |
Saint John Jones, O.F.M., also known as John Buckley, John Griffith, or Godfrey Maurice, was a Franciscan friar, Catholic priest and martyr. He was born at Clynnog Fawr, Caernarfonshire (Gwynedd), Wales and executed 12 July 1598. He is one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales.
Jones came from a recusant Welsh family, who had remained faithful Roman Catholics throughout and despite the Protestant Reformation. As a youth, he entered the Observant Franciscan friary at Greenwich, England; at its dissolution in 1559, he went to the Continent, and was professed (took his vows) at Pontoise, France.
After many years, Jones journeyed to Rome, where he stayed at the Ara Coeli friary of the Observants (a branch of the Franciscan Order of Friars Minor that followed the Franciscan Rule literally). There he joined the Roman province of the Reformati (an even stricter branch of the Friars Minor). In 1591, Jones requested to go on the English mission.
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