William Barrow
English Jesuit
Feast: 20 June (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
William Barrow (alias Harcourt), a Lancashire Jesuit, worked in London for thirty-five years and became its superior in 1678.
Arrested in the Oates Plot, he and four fellow Jesuits proved their accusers guilty of perjury, but the judge would not admit it; they were condemned and executed at Tyburn on 30 June 1679.
The miracles
As a martyr he was raised to the altars without a miracle.
Why that counted as sanctity
A Jesuit condemned on perjured evidence.
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 - William Barrow
- Wikidata Q8005126 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — William Barrow (Jesuit) (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 21 September 2026. Corrections welcome.