Home >> Society >> Religion and Spirituality >> Christianity >> Denominations >> Catholicism >> Saints >> A >> Saint Alexander Briant Blessed Alexander Briant English Jesuit priest and martyr. "The beautiful youth" was tortured in the Tower and then executed at Tyburn. He was scarcely over 25 when martyred in 1581. Alexander Briant Biography of the famous alumnus of Hertford College. Edmund Campion, Alexander Briant, & Ralph Sherwin All three martyred at Tyburn on 1 December, 1581. They were canonized in 1970 as part of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales.
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