BL. WILLIAM HORNE, PRIEST AND MARTYR - 4 AUGUST

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN AUGUST

Saints celebrated on the 4th of August

WELCOME!

BLESSED WILLIAM HORNE, PRIEST AND MARTYR 

⬅️ Martyrs of England and Wales

Blessed William was martyred on August 4, but he is also commemorated with the other Carthusian martyrs on May 4. 

THEY WERE EXECUTED AT TYBURN

These 16th century martyrs, eighteen in number, namely, in the first place, John Houghton, Prior of the London Charterhouse, Robert Laurence, Prior of Beauvale in Nottinghamshire, Augustine Webster, Prior of Axholme in Lincolnshire, who were executed at Tyburn, May 4, 1538. 

ELEVEN OTHER BRETHREN WERE MARTYRED

Shortly afterwards, eleven others of the brethren were done to death. 

They are John Rochester, James Walworth, John or Richard Bere, Thomas Johnson, Thomas Greenway or Green, all priests; John Davies, deacon; William Greenwood, Thomas Scriven, Robert Salt, Walter Pierson, Thomas Redyng, lay-brothers. Blessed William Exmew, Humphrey Middlemore and Sebastian Newdigate of the London Charterhouse had been put to death long before (June 18, 1535). 

THESE BLESSED MEN LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES RATHER THAN SWERVE FROM THE FAITH

Blessed William Horne shared the captivity of the rest, but was spared to be brought to execution at a later period (August 4, 1540). These holy men of one accord laid down their lives rather than swerve at the behest of Henry VIII from the Faith of their Fathers.

Source: The Book of Saints, 1921, by the Monks of Ramsgate - 📷 Three of the blessed Carthusian Martyrs

PRAYER:

Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that we who know how courageously your holy martyr William confessed the faith, may experience his goodness as he intercedes for us with you. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen.