Blessed Lawrence Richardson
- Also known as
- Lawrence Johnson
- Memorial
- 30 May
- Profile
- Born to an ancient landed family known for its piety.
Educated at Brasenose College, Oxford.
Convert to Catholicism.
Studied at Douai, France.
Ordained in 1577.
He returned to Lancashire to minister to covert Catholics, using the name Lawrence Johnson.
Arrested in 1581, accused of treason as part of the phony Rheims and Rome Plot.
Martyr.
- Born
- Great Crosby, County Lancaster, England
- Died
- hanged in 1582 at Tyburn, England
- Beatified
- 1886 by Pope Leo XIII
- Canonized
- pending
- Additional Information
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Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
Catholic Online
New Catholic Dictionary
Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
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