Bls. Thomas Green, Thomas Scryven, and Thomas Reding - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online
Bls. Thomas Green, Thomas Scryven, and Thomas Reding - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online
Bls. Thomas Green, Thomas Scryven, and Thomas Reding, Roman Catholic Carthusians and English Martyrs. All were starved to death in Newgate prison. Feastday June 14
English Carthusian martyrs. Thomas Green studied at St. John's College, Cambridge, entering the London Charterhouse of the Carthusians where he took vows and received ordination. Arrested for opposing King Henry VIII's (r. 1509-1547) claim of spiritual supremacy over the English Church, Thomas was imprisoned with two other Carthusians, the lay brothers Thomas Scryven and Thomas Reding, and four other companions. All were starved to death at Newgate.
Bls. Thomas Green, Thomas Scryven, and Thomas Reding, Roman Catholic Carthusians and English Martyrs. All were starved to death in Newgate prison. Feastday June 14
English Carthusian martyrs. Thomas Green studied at St. John's College, Cambridge, entering the London Charterhouse of the Carthusians where he took vows and received ordination. Arrested for opposing King Henry VIII's (r. 1509-1547) claim of spiritual supremacy over the English Church, Thomas was imprisoned with two other Carthusians, the lay brothers Thomas Scryven and Thomas Reding, and four other companions. All were starved to death at Newgate.
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