ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 4th of May WELCOME! SAINT ROBERT LAWRENCE, RELIGIOUS AND MARTYR London Oratory, The Martyrs of Tyburn Tree (detail) Saint Robert Lawrence, the Carthusian martyr, was born probably in Dorsetshire, studied in Cambridge and, according to Thomas Wrothesley, Earl of Southampton, was once chaplain to the Duke of Norfolk. After his profession at the London Charterhouse, he succeeded John Houghton as prior of Beauvale (1531). At the appearance of the decree of May 15, 1535, announcing Henry VIII as Supreme Head of the English Church, St Robert went to London for the advice of Prior Houghton. He accompanied Houghton and Augustine Webster, Prior of Axholme, in a visit to Thomas Cromwell for a modified form of the decree that they could accept in conscience. Thereupon they were imprisoned in the Tower together with Richard Reynolds, a Bridgettine of Syon. On April 20 they were examined by royal commissioners and s...