Philip Evans, SJ and John Lloyd were Welsh Catholic priests killed in the aftermath of the alleged Popish Plot.

Philip Evans was born in Monmouth in 1645, and educated at Jesuit College of St. Omer (in Artois, now in France).

He joined the Society of Jesus in Watten on 7 September 1665, and was ordained at Liège (now in Belgium) and sent to South Wales as a missionary in 1675.

[3] In November 1678 John Arnold, of Llanvihangel Court near Abergavenny, a justice of the peace and hunter of priests, offered a reward of £200 (equivalent to £40,000 in 2023)[4] for his arrest.

Sent to Wales in 1654 to minister to covert Catholics, he lived his vocation while constantly on the run for 24 years.

"[10] On 25 October 1970, both John Lloyd and Philip Evans were canonised by Pope Paul VI.

The same date is the assigned day of Bridget of Sweden, who was later designated one of six patron saints of Europe by Pope John Paul II.

A voluntary celebration for John Lloyd and Philip Evans may be kept on a nearby date at the discretion of local communities.