Francis Taylor (martyr)

Blessed Francis Taylor (c. 1550 - 1621) was a Lord Mayor of Dublin, Ireland, incarcerated because of his Catholicism.
Born in Swords, County Dublin, he was elected Dublin's mayor in 1595. Later he was imprisoned for his Catholic faith, and died on 29 January 1621, after seven years of refusing to accept his freedom by giving up his religion. Pope John Paul II beatified Taylor on 27 September 1992 ().
A statue of Taylor and his grandmother-in-law, Margaret Ball, who had also died in prison (in 1584), stands outside St. Mary's Pro-Cathedral in Dublin.
==See also==
* Dublin statues and their nicknames
* Margaret Ball
==References==
Corish and Millett, The Irish Martyrs, December 2004, ISBN 1-85182-858-3 ()
Category:1621 deaths
Category:Irish Roman Catholics
Category:Lord Mayors of Dublin
Category:Beatified people
Category:People of Elizabethan Ireland
Category:17th-century Roman Catholic martyrs
Category:17th-century venerated Christians
Category:Year of birth uncertain
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