William Gunter (martyr)


Blessed William Gunter was a Roman Catholic priest who was martyred during the persecutions under Queen Elizabeth I.
He was beatified in 1929 by Pope Pius XI.

History

Blessed William Gunter was from Raglan in Monmouthshire. He studied in Reims, France, where he was ordained in 1587.
He was martyred in Lincoln's Inn Fields on 28 August 1588 under the persecutions of Queen Elizabeth I.