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Ven. Thomas Whitbread

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A native of Essex and Jesuit provincial, refused Titus Oates admission to the Society of Jesus. And the rest, as they say, is history. Oates fabricated the alleged "Popish Plot," Bl. Thomas was arrested though very ill, and condemned on flimsy perjured "evidence". Bl. Thomas died a martyr in 1679.

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