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Nicholas Atkinson

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Priest and martyr, probably to be identified with Venerable Thomas Atkinson. Dodd, who mentions Nicholas’s death as having taken place at York in 1610, does not mention Thomas at all; yet all the facts which he relates of the one are certainly true of the other, while there is no corroboration for Dodd’s date of Nicholas’s martyrdom. It seems probable, however, there was an old Marian priest named Nicholas, or “Ninny”, Atkinson (Gillow, 85).

Source Record

Author
Pollen, John Hungerford
Publication
The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 2. New York: Robert Appleton Company. 1907.
Nihil Obstat
Nihil Obstat. 1907. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., Censor.
Imprimatur
Imprimatur. +John M. Farley, Archbishop of New York.