Robert Anderton

Blessed

Robert Anderton
Priest and Martyr
Bornc. 1560
Lancashire or Isle of Man[1]
Died25 April 1586 (aged 25 - 26)
Isle of Wight
Venerated inRoman Catholic Church
Beatified15 December 1929 by Pope Pius XI
Feast25 April (together with his companion)
29 October (one of the Douai Martyrs)

Robert Anderton (c. 1560 – 25 April 1586) was an English or Manx Catholic priest and martyr under the Elizabethan era religious persecution. Along with his companion, William Marsden, he was beatified by Pope Pius XI in 1929.

  1. ^ T.B. Trappes Lomax, "The Birthplace of the Blessed Robert Anderson", British Catholic History, Volume 1 - Issue 3 - 1951, pp. 235-238.