About English Reformation
The English Reformation was a series of events in 16th-century England by which the Church of England broke away from the authority of the Pope and the Roman Catholic Church.
Cardinal Newman declared a Saint by Pope
... John Henry Newman is the first English saint since the Forty martyrs, the executed have been adopted under the laws, during the English Reformation canonized, and in 1970 thousands of Brits travelled to Rome, to celebrate...
Cardinal John Henry Newman: How he has become a Saint?
...John Henry Newman is the first English saint since the Forty martyrs, the executed have been adopted under the laws, during the English Reformation canonized, and in 1970 cardinal John Henry Newman was beatified, in a ceremony performed by the Pope and accompanied by Prince Charles...
John Henry Newman: Second miracle approved as sainthood looms
... The last English canonisations were in 1970 of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales, a group of Catholics who were executed between 1535 and 1679 under laws enacted during the English Reformation...