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Hugh Taylor has the distinction of being the first person to be executed for merely being an English Catholic priest in England, which was high treason according to statute 27 Eliz. c. 2. He was martyred 25 November 1585, and beatified in 1987.

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Ven. Hugh Taylor - The first to suffer martyrdom for the crime of being a priest in England who had studied abroad; the following day, a layman who had outwardly conformed was martyred for the newly defined felony of harboring such a person.

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