Saint Edmund Gennings (1567 – 10 December 1591) was an English martyr who was executed during the English Reformation for being a Catholic priest. He came from Lichfield Staffordshire. His name is sometimes spelled Jennings.Edmund was a thoughtful serious boy naturally inclined to matters of faith. At around sixteen years of age he converted to Catholicism. He went immediately to the English College at Rheims where he was ordained a priest in 1590 being then only twenty-three years of age.
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