Anthony Page
English beatified priest
Feast: 20 April (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Anthony Page was born at Harrow-on-the-Hill in Middlesex in 1571, of gentle birth, and studied at Christ Church, Oxford. He entered the English College at Reims in 1584 and was ordained priest there on 21 September 1591. A fellow student described him as wonderfully meek, modest and pure, learned and devout, and loved by all.
He was condemned for being a priest and was hanged, disembowelled and quartered at York in April 1593.
The miracles
As a martyr he was raised to the altars without a miracle.
Why that counted as sanctity
A gentle young English priest executed at York in 1593.
The cause
The cause continues. No postulation address is published here yet. Favours received through this person’s intercession, and offers of help, are best sent to the religious order or congregation they belonged to, or to the diocese where the cause was opened; either will pass them to the postulation.
- Catholic Encyclopedia (1913), via New Advent - Venerable Anthony Page
- Roman Martyrology, 20 April (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q4773239 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Anthony Page (priest) (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.