Peter Wright
Catholic priest, Jesuit, and martyr
Feast: 25 October (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Peter Wright, a solicitor's clerk and briefly a soldier, entered the Jesuits in 1629 and became chaplain to an English regiment in Spanish service.
He came to England in 1644 and later served as chaplain to the Marquess of Winchester in London, where he was arrested on Candlemas 1651. Condemned for being a priest, he was executed at Tyburn on Whit Monday, 19 May 1651, before over twenty thousand people.
The miracles
As a martyr he was raised to the altars without a miracle.
Why that counted as sanctity
A soldier turned Jesuit who died for his priesthood.
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 - Peter Wright
- Wikidata Q7177795 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Peter Wright (Jesuit) (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 21 September 2026. Corrections welcome.