Cuthbert Mayne

Saint

Cuthbert Mayne
Cuthbert Mayne in a mezzotint by Daniel Fournier
Priest and Martyr
Forty Martyrs of England and Wales
BornBaptized 20 March 1543 or 1544
Youlston, near Barnstaple, Devon, England
Died(1577-11-29)29 November 1577 (aged 33 or 34)
Launceston, Cornwall, England
Venerated inRoman Catholic Church
Beatified29 December 1886 by Pope Leo XIII
Canonized25 October 1970 by Pope Paul VI
Major shrineChurch of St Cuthbert Mayne, Launceston, Cornwall
Feast30 November (individual)
25 October (together with Forty Martyrs of England and Wales)
29 November (one of the Douai Martyrs)
AttributesNoose around neck, crucifix, knife in chest, martyr's palm, holding a Bible
PatronageLaunceston, Cornwall

Cuthbert Mayne (c. 1543–29 November 1577) was an English Catholic priest executed under the laws of Elizabeth I. He was the first of the seminary priests trained on the Continent to be martyred. Mayne was beatified in 1886 and canonised as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales in 1970.