Saint Augustine Webster

Memorial

• 9 July
• 4 May (as one of the Carthusian Martyrs)
• 25 October as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales

Profile

Educated at Cambridge. Priest. Carthusian monk and prior of Our Lady of Melwood, a Carthusian house at Epworth, on the Isle of Axholme, North Lincolnshire, England in 1531. Imprisoned, tortured and martyred on the orders of Thomas Cromwell when he refused to take the Oath of Supremacy recognizing English royalty as head of the Church. One of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales

Died

• dragged through the street, beaten, hanged, drawn, and quartered on 4 May 1535 at Tyburn, London, England

Venerated

• 8 December 1929 by Pope Pius XI (decree of martyrdom)

Beatified

• 15 December 1929 by Pope Pius XI

Canonized

• 25 October 1970 by Pope Paul VI

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Institute of Saint Clement I Pope and Martyr
• Katherine Rabenstein
• Kirken i Norge
• New Catholic Dictionary
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints
• Wikipedia

MLA Citation

• “Saint Augustine Webster“. Saints.SQPN.com. 15 May 2013. Web. 25 May 2013. <>