- Catholic Encyclopedia - Bl. Richard Thirkeld, English priest, missionary, served as St. Margaret Clitherow's confessor. He was arrested while visiting a Catholic in prison, convicted of reconciling the queen's subjects with the Catholic Church, and martyred in 1583.
www.newadvent.org/cathen/13046b.htm
- For All the Saints - Brief profile of Bl. Richard Thirkeld.
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