14 November 1539 (aged 48 - 49) Reading Abbey, Reading, England
Honored in
Roman Catholic Church
Beatified
13 May 1895 by Pope Leo XIII
Feast
15 November
Attributes
reliquary, pastoral staff, martyr's palm, noose in neck
Hugh Faringdon, OSB (died 14 November 1539), earlier known as Hugh Cook, later as Hugh Cook alias Faringdon and Hugh Cook of Faringdon, was a Benedictine monk who presided as the last Abbot of Reading Abbey in the English town of Reading. At the dissolution of the monasteries under King Henry VIII of England, Faringdon was accused of high treason and executed. He was declared a martyr and beatified by the Catholic Church in 1895.
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during Henry VIII's Dissolution of the Monasteries. The last abbot, HughFaringdon, was subsequently tried and convicted of high treason and hanged, drawn...
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house became one of their main manors. In his role as Abbot of Reading, HughFaringdon was residing at Bere Court in 1539 when he was arrested for high treason...
executed on 15 November 1539 at the gateway to Reading Abbey, along with HughFaringdon and John Rugg. Rugg was a prebendary at Chichester, but had retired...
overthrow the King and place Cardinal Reginald Pole on the throne. HughFaringdon 14 November 1539 Benedictine Abbot of Reading Abbey. Hanged, drawn,...
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the Falklands` casualties. The chapel was the winner of Private Eye's Sir Hugh Casson Award for the worst new building of the year in 2000, with the magazine's...
property, and money from an uncle. His inheritance included Faringdon House, in Faringdon, Oxfordshire, which he initially gave to his mother and her...
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(non-selective) Altwood CE School Baylis Court School Beechwood School Blessed HughFaringdon RC School The Brakenhale School The Bulmershe School Charters School...
counties. Bocland received his surname from the manor of Buckland, near Faringdon, in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire), of which he was tenant under the monastery...
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