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Thomas Garnet (9 November 1575 – 23 June 1608) was a Jesuit priest who was executed in London. He is the protomartyr (i.e., the first martyr associated with a place) of Saint Omer and of Stonyhurst College. He was executed at Tyburn and is one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales.
Thomas Garnet (1575-1608) was imprisoned on three different occasions, but would not be deterred from caring for English Catholics. He was arrested for the last time when the man in whose home he was staying was implicated in the Gunpowder Plot to blow up the houses of parliament.
Thomas Garnet became Lord William Howard's page and entered the Jesuit College at St Omer, whence he moved to the English College at Valladolid in 1596, where he was ordained priest in 1599. After a short spell of work as a priest in England he became a Jesuit in 1604.
Thomas Garnet worked near Warwickshire for six years, but his ministry ended with the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot. The Jesuit martyrs of this time were known for their intelligence, joy, humor, and for their deep understanding of martyrdom as apostolic.
Father Garnet now went to his old school at St-Omer, thence to Brussels to see the superior of the Jesuits, Father Baldwin, his companion in the adventures of 1595, who sent him to the English Jesuit novitiate, St. John's, Louvain, in which he was the first novice received.
Saint Thomas Garnet, born in 1574 in Southwark, England, was a Catholic priest and one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales. He was born into a devout Catholic family, his father being Richard Garnet, an Oxford don, and his uncle being Henry Garnet, the superior of all Jesuits in England and in charge of a network of covert priests.
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English Jesuit martyr. A nephew of the Jesuit Henry Garnet, he was born in Southwark, England, and studied for the priesthood at St. Omer, France, and Valladolid, Spain. Initially ordained as a secular priest, hejoined the Jesuits in 1604 and worked to advance the Catholic cause in Warwick until his arrest in 1606.
