Robert Lawrence (martyr)

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Robert Lawrence

OCart.
Martyr
Bornc.1485
Died4 May 1535 (aged 49 - 50)
Tyburn, London, England
Honored in Roman Catholic Church
Beatified 29 December 1886 by Pope Leo XIII
Canonized 25 October 1970 by Pope Paul VI
Feast 4 May (individual), 25 October (collectively with Forty Martyrs of England and Wales)
Attributes martyr's palm

Robert Lawrence, OCart (died 4 May 1535) was one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales. He was hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn for declining to sign the Oath of Supremacy. His feast day is 4 May.

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Life

Born about 1485, Robert Lawrence was a graduate of Cambridge. After joining the Carthusians, in 1531, he succeeded John Houghton as Prior of the Beauvale Priory, Nottinghamshire, when Houghton was appointed Prior of the London Charterhouse. [1] [2]

By February 1535 Parliament declared that everyone had to take the Oath of Supremacy, declaring King Henry VIII to be Supreme Head of the Church of England. [3] Lawrence went with Houghton to see Thomas Cromwell, who had them arrested and placed in the Tower of London. When they refused to sign the Oath of Supremacy, they were hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn, making them among the first Carthusian martyrs in England. [4]

Beatified in 1886, Robert was canonized by Pope Paul VI with thirty-nine other martyrs on 25 October 1970. [3]

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References

  1. ""Saint Robert Lawrence", English Martyrs Parish" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 19 February 2014. Retrieved 2 February 2014.
  2. Monks of Ramsgate. "Carthusian Martyrs". Book of Saints, 1921. CatholicSaints.Info. 29 September 2012 PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
  3. 1 2 ""History of Beauvale", The Beauvale Society". Archived from the original on 17 December 2013. Retrieved 2 February 2014.
  4. Cranmer, Thomas (1833). The Remains of Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury. Oxford University Press.