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Attributes. noose around neck, knife in chest, harp. Patronage. Tennis, tennis players. Philip Evans, SJ and John Lloyd were Welsh Catholic priests killed in the aftermath of the alleged Popish Plot. They are among the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales.
Father Evans refused to leave his flock, and early in December was caught at the house of Christopher Turberville at Sker in Glamorgan. He refused the oath and was confined alone in an underground dungeon in Cardiff Castle. Two or three weeks afterwards he was joined by Mr John Lloyd
John Lloyd was forced to watch the agony suffered by Philip Evans while he waited for his own time to die. Witnesses commentated on the unusual ferocity with which the barbaric sentence was carried out on both men.
Philip Evans, SJ and John Lloyd were Welsh Catholic priests killed in the aftermath of the alleged Popish Plot. They are among the Forty Martyrs of England and... English
For the first three weeks of captivity, Evans remained in solitary confinement in an underground cell. Then he was brought up to the regular prison where he joined Fr. John Lloyd, a diocesan priest. They waited five months before going to trial on May 3, 1679 because the prosecution could not find witnesses to testify that they were indeed priests.
On July 22, 1679, Father Philip Evans and another priest, Father John Lloyd, were executed. As they were led to the scaffold, they prayed and forgave their executioners. Even in the face of death, they radiated hope and stood steadfast in faith.
The authentication of the mortal remains of our two great martyr saints by Jan Graffius the curator of the Jesuit museum at Stonyhurst College is surely an answer to prayer. There is a particular devotion to both St. John Lloyd and St. Philip Evans throughout Wales and particularly in Cardiff.
