Saint Augustine Webster
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- Memorial
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9 July
4 May (Carthusians)
25 October as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales
- Profile
- Educated at Cambridge.
Priest.
Carthusian 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.
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
- Canonized
- 25 October 1970 by Pope Paul VI
- Additional Information
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For All The Saints, by Katherine Rabenstein
Kirken i Norge - norwegian
New Catholic Dictionary
Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
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