One of the 18 Carthusian Martyrs. Prior of The London Charterhouse - a Carthusian monastery. Refused to accept Henry VIII as the head of the church of England. Martyred at Tyburn.
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Saint John Houghton
The verse comes from "The Apocrypha: Prayer of Azariah, Chapter 1". We don't...
The Great Cloister of The London Charterhouse, 1371 - 1538, once occupied thi...
Destroyed in the Great Fire, rebuilt by Wren, badly damaged in WW2, restored ...
