ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 4th of May WELCOME! SAINT AUGUSTINE WEBSTER, PRIEST AND MARTYR Augustine Webster, (May 4), Prior of the Carthuse of Beauval, in the county of Nottingham, and a martyr, was sentenced to death and hanged May 4, 1535, for not recognising the ecclesiastical suzerainty of Henry VIII. (Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, 1858) *** The three holy Priors, Bl. Augustine Webster, Bl. Robert Lawrence and Bl. John Houghton... resolved to go together to Cromwell, the King’s Vicar-General, to represent their sincere loyalty, but to petition to be exempted from an exaction which their conscience could not bear. They were received by this man with the greatest harshness. He would hear of no exemption, no alteration in the terms of the oath. "What do I care for the Church?" he said. "Will you take the oath or not?" On their refusal, they were straightway committed to a severe imprisonment in the ...