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John Gerard (4 October 1564 – 27 July 1637) was a priest of the Society of Jesus who operated a secret ministry of the underground Catholic Church in England during the Elizabethan era. He was born into the English nobility as the second son of Sir Thomas Gerard at Old Bryn Hall, near Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire.
John Gerard (also John Gerarde, 1545–1612) was an English herbalist with a large garden in Holborn, now part of London. His 1,484-page illustrated Herball, or Generall Historie of Plantes, first published in 1597, became a popular gardening and herbal book in English in the 17th century.
Jul 28, 2014 · The said inquisitor was Richard Topcliffe, the Queen’s chief interrogator and sadistic torturer; the prisoner was Fr. John Gerard, a captured English Jesuit who was being held in the Clink Prison. With great finesse, he had handled the question.
A commentary on the second edition of the Herball, a translation and revision of a Flemish botanical work by John Gerard, a sixteenth-century English herbalist. The title page features allegorical figures, biblical quotes, and illustrations of plants, including the first published image of a potato flower.
Gerard, JOHN, Jesuit; b. October 4, 1564; d. July 27, 1637. He is well known through his autobiography, a fascinating record of dangers and adventures, of captures and escapes, of trials and consolations.
Sep 19, 2022 · Father John Gerard describes his life, vocation and mission as a covert priest in England during the persecutions of Queen Elizabeth I. He is imprisoned, tortured, escapes, comes to know a number of the great martyrs of the time.
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John Gerard was born in 1564. He was the son of devout Catholic parents who had to pay many fines and even suffer imprisonment for their fidelity to Rome and their failure to attend the...
