He was of gentle birth and matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford on 23 November 1581.
He entered the English College, at Reims on 30 September 1584 along with Joseph Lambton, and received minor orders in April 1585.
Anthony Champney, who was his contemporary at Reims, in his manuscript history of the reign of Elizabeth I of England, as quoted by Richard Challoner, describes him as "of more than common learning and piety, and as having endeared himself to all by his singular candour of mind and sweetness of behaviour.
"[2] On Candlemas 1593, there was a great search for priests ordered in the north, and he was found at Heworth Manor near York, in a hiding place at the bottom of a haystack.
[4] Anthony Page was beatified by Pope John Paul II on 22 November 1987 as one of the Eighty-five martyrs of England and Wales, whose feast day is 4 May.