June 9th

Blessed Robert Salt

Blessed · Common of Martyrs · London, United Kingdom · d. 1537

At London in England, Blessed Robert Salt, martyr, a monk of the Charterhouse of that city, who, for steadfastly keeping his fidelity to the Church against King Henry the Eighth, was confined in Newgate prison and died of starvation.

Latin Original

Londínii in Anglia, beáti Robérti Salt, mártyris, mónachi e Cartásia huius civitátis, qui, ob fidelitátem erga Ecclésiam contra Henrícum regem Octávum firmiter servátam, in cárcere Neopórtus deténtus fame occübuit.