SAINT OF THE DAY

July 7

Bl. Ralph Milner (d. 1591)

English martyr.
He was born at Stocksteads, Hampshire, and was a convert.
He was arrested the day he received his first Communion.
A husbands man by trade, Ralph was allowed a leave from prison and aided priests and Catholics.
He was executed at Winchester on July by being hanged, drawn,
and quartered for giving assistance to Blessed Roger Dickenson.
He was beatified in 1929.