Saints of the day May 04 We all must repent and reconcile with The Holy Church, it is the only way forward. "There is only one tragedy in this life, not to have been a saint."- Leon Bloy
Saints of the day May 04 We all must repent and reconcile with The Holy Church, it is the only way forward. "There is only one tragedy in this life, not to have been a saint."- Leon Bloy Bl. Carthusian Martyrs, 1540 A.D. English monks of the Carthusian Order put to death by King Henry VIII because of their continued allegiance to the pope and the authority of the Holy See. These martyrs, eighteen in all, were beatified in 1886. St. Augustine Webster, 1535 A.D. One of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales canonized in 1970. Augustine was a Carthusian prior of the Charterhouse at Axholme, England. He was arrested in London and martyred at Tyburn. St. John Houghton, 1535 A.D. Protomartyr of the English Reformation. A native of Essex, he served as a parish priest after graduating from Cambridge. He then became a Carthusian and the prior of the Carthusian Charterhouse of London. As an opponent of King Henry VIII’s Acts of Succession and Supremacy, he was ...