Blessed Thomas Cottam was an English Catholic priest and martyr from Lancashire, who was executed during the reign of Elizabeth I. Cottam was born to Protestant parents, Laurence Cottam of Dilworth and Anne Brewer, but was converted as an adult by Thomas Pound. He studied at Brasenose College, Oxford, and received his M.A. on July 14, 1572, before leaving for London, where he became master of a grammar school. It was there that he met Pound and decided to head to Douai to become a priest.

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  • Blessed Thomas Cottam was an English Catholic priest and martyr from Lancashire, who was executed during the reign of Elizabeth I. Cottam was born to Protestant parents, Laurence Cottam of Dilworth and Anne Brewer, but was converted as an adult by Thomas Pound. He studied at Brasenose College, Oxford, and received his M.A. on July 14, 1572, before leaving for London, where he became master of a grammar school. It was there that he met Pound and decided to head to Douai to become a priest. He was ordained a deacon at Cambrai in December of 1577 and, desiring to become a missionary to India, went to Rome and was received as a Jesuit novice at Sant' Andrea on April 8, 1579. That October he came down with a fever and was sent to Lyons to recuperate. From there he went to the English College, Rheims, considering himself accepted for India, if his health improved after a visit to England. He was ordained around May 28, 1580, at Soissons and left on June 5 with four companions for England. Betrayed by an English spy named Sledd, he was immediately arrested at Dover. Through a ruse by Dr. Ely, one of his fellow-travelers, Cottam reached London safely; however, the good deed put the doctor at risk, and Cottam voluntarily surrendered himself. He was initially committed "close prisoner" to the Marshalsea, where it is thought he said his first mass. After being tortured, he was removed on December 4, 1580 to the Tower, where he endured the rack and the Scavenger's Daughter. Cottam was arraigned with Campion and others and on November 16, 1581, he was sentenced to death. His execution was deferred until May 30, 1582, when he was executed with the secular priests William Filby, Luke Kirby, and Laurence Richardson. All four were beatified by Leo XIII on December 29, 1886.
  • Thomas Cottam war ein englischer Jesuit und Märtyrer. Thomas Cottam wurde am 29. Dezember 1886 von Papst Leo XIII. selig gesprochen, sein Fest ist am 1. Dezember. Cottam wurde 1549 in Lancashire als Sohn von Laurence Cottam of Dilworth und der Anne Brewer geboren. Er studierte am Brasenose College in Oxford, wo er 1568 den Grad des Bachelor of Arts (B. A. ) erwarb und am 14. Juli 1572 seinen Magister Artium. Er leitete anschließend in London eine Grammatikschule. In London traf er Thomas Pound, der ihn zum Katholizismus bekehrte. Nach seinem Übertritt vom anglikanischen zum katholischen Glauben studierte er seit 1575 in Douai Philosophie und Theologie und wurde als Diakon am 8. April 1579 in Rom Jesuit. Als Missionar wollte er nach Ostindien, wurde aber wegen seiner gesundheitlichen Verfassung als dafür ungeeignet angesehen, weshalb man ihn nach Douai und Reims schickte. 1580 wurde Cottam zum Priester geweiht und dann zur Mission nach England geschickt. Juni 1580 ging er in Dover an Land, wo er durch einen englischen Spion verraten und direkt verhaftet wurde. Zuerst wurde er im Gefängnis von Marshalsea inhaftiert, von wo er am 4. Dezember 1580 in den Tower von London verlegt wurde. Am 30. Mai 1582 wurde er zusammen mit anderen Priestern, so William Filby, Luke Kirby und Laurence Richardson in London auf dem Richtplatz in Tyburn hingerichtet. Alle vier wurden am 29. Dezember 1886 von Papst Leo III. selig gesprochen.
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  • Blessed Thomas Cottam was an English Catholic priest and martyr from Lancashire, who was executed during the reign of Elizabeth I. Cottam was born to Protestant parents, Laurence Cottam of Dilworth and Anne Brewer, but was converted as an adult by Thomas Pound. He studied at Brasenose College, Oxford, and received his M.A. on July 14, 1572, before leaving for London, where he became master of a grammar school. It was there that he met Pound and decided to head to Douai to become a priest.
  • Thomas Cottam war ein englischer Jesuit und Märtyrer. Thomas Cottam wurde am 29. Dezember 1886 von Papst Leo XIII. selig gesprochen, sein Fest ist am 1. Dezember. Cottam wurde 1549 in Lancashire als Sohn von Laurence Cottam of Dilworth und der Anne Brewer geboren. Er studierte am Brasenose College in Oxford, wo er 1568 den Grad des Bachelor of Arts (B. A. ) erwarb und am 14. Juli 1572 seinen Magister Artium. Er leitete anschließend in London eine Grammatikschule.
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