Blessed Peter Wright (1603 – 1651), Catholic priest, Jesuit, martyr, was born in Slipton, Northamptonshire, England in 1603. In older literature he was presumed to be a Protestant, but more recently record of him has been found at Slipton in 1613 as a Recusant, along with his mother, brother and sister. Peter Wright was beatified by Pope Pius XI on December 15, 1929. His feast day is May 19