Hugh Cook Faringdon
Deceased Person
– 1539
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Who was Hugh Cook Faringdon?
Blessed Hugh Cook Faringdon, O.S.B., also known as Hugh Faringdon or Hugh Cook, was a Benedictine monk who ruled as the last Abbot of Reading Abbey in the English town of Reading. At the dissolution of the monasteries under King Henry VIII of England, he was accused of high treason and executed. He was declared a martyr and beatified by the Catholic Church in 1895.
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