Saint Augustine Webster
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- 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
- dragged through the street, beaten, hanged, drawn, and quartered on 4 May 1535 at Tyburn, London, England
- 8 December 1929 by Pope Pius XI (decree of martyrdom)
Additional Information
- Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
- For All The Saints, by Katherine Rabenstein
- Kirken i Norge - norwegian
- New Catholic Dictionary
- Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
