He was ordained at Binche in the County of Hainaut by Monsignor Louis de Berlaymont, Archbishop of Cambrai, on 11 June 1576.
[3] He was arrested on 1 December 1577 at his residence, "late in the evening as he was saying the Nocturne of the Matins for the next day following", and was put into Newgate Prison as a suspected Papist.
[4] On his execution day he refused to see several Protestant ministers, after meeting with family members.
He was taken to Tyburn and was allowed to speak before the bystanders, who were mostly hostile in the historically Protestant London.
"[2] He then asked any Catholics in the crowd to pray with him as he recited several common prayers in Latin.