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Blessed John Rochester

detail of the painting 'The Martyrdom of Fathers John Rochester and James Walworth' by Vincenzo Carducci, c.1632; Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Spain; swiped from Wikimedia Commons Memorial

11 May
4 May (as one of the Carthusian Martyrs)

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Son of John Rochester of Terling and Grisold of Bobbingworth. Carthusian choir monk at the London Charterhouse. Priest. Exiled by the government to the Charterhouse of Saint Michael at Hull, Yorkshire. Martyred with Blessed James Walworth for refusing to accept King Henry VIII as head of the Church.

Born

c.1498 at Tealing, Essex, England

hanged in chains from the battlements of York, England on 11 May 1537

20 December 1886 by Pope Leo XIII

Additional Information

Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
Catholic Encyclopedia
New Catholic Dictionary
Saints of the Day, by Katherine Rabenstein

books
- Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints

other sites in english
- Catholic Online

sitios en español
- Martirologio Romano, 2001 edición

fonti in italiano
- Martirologio Romano, 2005 edition
- Santi e Beati

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