Apr 202009
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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 (perhaps alias Thomas Greenwood), choir monk of the London Charterhouse, died of starvation in Newgate Prison, London on June 10, 1537
- Blessed Thomas Johnson, choir monk of the London Charterhouse, died of starvation in Newgate Prison, London on September 20, 1537
- Blessed Thomas Redyng, laybrother of the London Charterhouse, died of starvation in Newgate Prison, London on June 16, 1537
- Blessed Thomas Scryven, laybrother of the London Charterhouse, died of starvation in Newgate Prison, London on June 15, 1537
- Blessed Walter Pierson
- Blessed William Exmew
- Blessed William Greenwood
- Blessed William Horne, laybrother of the London Charterhouse, hanged, disembowelled, and quartered at Tyburn, London on August 4, 1540
- 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, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
- Saints Alive, by Father Robert F McNamara
- Wikipedia
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