Carthusian Martyrs

Memorial

• 4 May

Profile

A group of Carthusian monks who were hanged, drawn and quartered between 19 June 1535 and 20 September 1537 for refusing to acknowledge the English royalty as head of the Church.

• Blessed Humphrey Middlemore
• Blessed James Walworth
• Blessed John Davy
• Blessed John Rochester
• Blessed Richard Bere
• Blessed Robert Salt
• Blessed Sebastian Newdigate
• Blessed Thomas Green
• Blessed Thomas Johnson
• Blessed Thomas Redyng
• Blessed Thomas Scryven
• Blessed Walter Pierson
• Blessed William Exmew
• Blessed William Greenwood
• Blessed William Horne
• Saint Augustine Webster
• Saint John Houghton
• Saint Robert Lawrence

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Catholic Online
• Catholic Online
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints
• Wikipedia

MLA Citation

• “Carthusian Martyrs“. Saints.SQPN.com. 7 April 2013. Web. 21 May 2013. <>