Priest and martyr; born in the Diocese of Bangor, Wales, 1590;
died 1642. He was educated at Oxford, and ordained a Protestant
minister, but abandoning heresy, he crossed over to Paris, where
he was received into the Church by Mr. Richard Ireland. Admitted
to Douai College, 12 Feb., 1621, he continued his studies there
until 1624, when he proceeded to St-Omer, in order to enter the
Society of Jesus. Finding, however, that this was not his
vocation, he was ordained a secular priest and sent on the
English mission. He worked with unremitting zeal for some years,
was twice apprehended and twice released. Once more a prisoner
in 1642, he was brought to trial and condemned to death, but at
the queen's intercession was reprieved. When this act of
clemency on the part of Charles I excited the anger of
Parliament, Goodman, with great magnanimity, protested his
unwillingness to be a cause of dissension between Charles and
his subjects, and begged that he might be sacrificed to appease
the popular displeasure. This her