Saints celebrated on the 30th of May
BLESSED LAURENCE RICHARDSON, PRIEST AND MARTYR
Blessed Laurence Richardson, a son of Richard Johnson, of Great Crosby, Lancashire, was a Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford, in or before 1569, and supplicated B.A. November 25, 1572. In 1573 he was at Douai, and on March 23, 1577, was ordained priest at Cateau-Cambresis.
He was sent on the mission July 27 following, and laboured in Lancashire. He was arrested in London on his way to France and imprisoned in Newgate, where he remained until the day of his indictment, November 16, 1581, when he was committed to the Queen's Bench Prison, and on the day of his condemnation, November 17, to the Tower, where he had no bedding for two months.
Source: Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913
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