The Blessed Thurston Hunt (executed March 1601 at Lancaster) was an English Roman Catholic priest. He was tried and executed with the Blessed Robert Middleton, also a priest. They were declared to be martyrs by the Catholic Church, and beatified in 1987, by Pope John Paul II.
A contemporary sang of
- Hunt's hawtie corage staut,
- With godlie zeale soe true,
- Myld Middleton, O what tongue
- Can halfe thy vertue showe!
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