we now profess." In 1563, he was again arrested and committed to the Marshalsea, but managed to escape to Flanders, where he became a pensioner of King Philip II, and acted as the King's almoner for the Catholic exiles. Engaged by the Duke of Alba (Alva in Dutch), Governor of the Spanish Netherlands, to prevent the export of heretical books from the Netherlands to England, he was lured onto a trading boat at Antwerp in 1570 and conveyed to Yarmouthand thence to imprisonment in the Tower of London. According to Bede Camm, Story represented the old order, and was well known among the Catholic refugees. Brought home by fraud and violence and then executed, Camm sees this as meant to send a message to the exiles, demonstrating "how strong Elizabeth was to punish and how powerless Spain to protect". In spite of his claim that he was a Spanish subject, he was tried for high treason (for having supported the Northern Rebellion of 1569 and encouraging the Duke of Alba to invade) and was condemned to death on 2 May 1571. The spectacle of his trial moved St. Edmund Campion, who was present, to reconsider both his own position and his Catholic duty. He was executed at Tyburn by being hanged, drawn and quartered on 1 June 1571. With the rope around his neck he made a long speech and pleaded on behalf of his wife "who hath four young children". Veneration In 1886, John Story was beatified by Pope Leo XIII owing to a papal decree originally approved by Pope Gregory XVI in 1859. References Attribution External links Catholic Forum Patron Saints Index: Blessed John Storey Saint of the Day, 1 June: Blessed John Storey at SaintPatrickDC.org Story, John (c.1504-71) The History of Parliament online: British Political, Social and Local History 1504 births 1571 deaths English beatified people People executed under the Tudors for treason against England People executed under Elizabeth I by hanging, drawing and quartering 16th-century Roman Catholic martyrs 16th-century venerated Christians Alumni of the University of Oxford Principals of Broadgates Hall, Oxford Regius Professors of Civil Law (University of Oxford) Executed English people People executed at Tyburn English MPs 1545–1547 English MPs 1547–1552 English MPs 1553 (Mary I) English MPs 1554 English MPs 1554–1555 English MPs 1555 English MPs 1559 People executed by Tudor England by decapitation English politicians convicted of crimes Forty-one Martyrs of England