Blessed Richard Kirkman

"This martyr suffered with Blessed William Lacey at the Knavesmire outside the walls of York on 22 August 1582, confessing and absolving one another on the hurdle on the way to death."

Blessed Richard seems always to be listed with his fellow martyr, Bd. William Lacey. The most compete biography of him that I can find on-line can be found under the same link noted yesterday for William Lacey.

A quote from Blessed Richard, noted in Bowden:

When one of the judges lost his temper and cursed him as a traitor, the priest replied, "You might, sir, with the same justice charge the apostles also with being traitors, for they taught the same doctrine that I now teach and did the same things for which you condemn me." He protested that he was unworthy of a martyr's death, and after sentence sang "Te Deum laudamus" in a loud voice.