John Woodcock was born in Leyland Lancashire in England. His parents Thomas and Dorothy Woodcock the latter a Catholic were of the middle class. Woodcock converted to Catholicism about 1622 and after studying at Saint-Omer for a year was admitted to the English College Rome on 20 October 1629.On 16 May 1630 he joined the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin in Paris but soon afterwards transferred himself to the English Franciscans at Douai.
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