Roger Cadwallador
English priest
Who they were
Roger Cadwallador of Herefordshire was ordained at Valladolid and worked in his home county for about sixteen years, with great success especially among the poor.
Arrested at Easter 1610, he was kept in irons day and night and made to walk to Leominster in shackles. Condemned merely for being a priest, he suffered greatly through a clumsy hangman and was executed at Leominster on 27 August 1610.
The miracles
As a martyr he was raised to the altars without a miracle.
Why that counted as sanctity
A priest of the poor who bore great suffering for the Faith.
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 - Roger Cadwallador
- Wikidata Q7357942 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Roger Cadwallador (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 21 September 2026. Corrections welcome.