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Early years John Almond was born about 1577 . He passed his childhood at Allerton near Liverpool , where he was born, and at Much Woolton , Lancashire . His boyhood and early manhood were spent in Ireland , until he went to the English College in Rome , at the age of twenty. Skilled Debater He concluded his term there brilliantly by giving the 'Grand Act' -- a public defence of theses which cover the whole course of philosophy and theology -- and was warmly congratulated by Cardinals Caesar Baronius and Francesco Maria Tarugi , who presided. Return to England He returned to the dangers of England in 1602 as a secular Priest and administered to the faithful there. He was arrested in 1608 , and then again in 1612. In November of that year seven priests had escaped from prison, and this may have sharpened the zeal of the persecutors. He displayed to the last a great acuteness in argument, and died with the Holy Name upon his lips. |
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