June 19th

Blessed Sebastian Newdigate and Companions, Martyrs of London

Blessed · Common of Martyrs · London, England, United Kingdom · d. 1535

At London in England, the Blessed martyrs Sebastian Newdigate, Humphrey Middlemore, and William Exmew, priests of the Charterhouse of that city, who, under King Henry VIII, were imprisoned because they had firmly persevered as faithful members of the Church of Christ. For seventeen days they were made to stand bound to posts with iron fetters, and then completed their martyrdom by the punishment of hanging at Tyburn.

Latin Original

Londíni in Anglia, beatórum mártyrum Sebastiáni Newdigate, Humphrédi Middlemore et Guliélmi Exmew, presbyterórum e Cartásia elásdem civitátis, qui, sub Henríco rege Octávo in cárcere cónditi quod fidéles Christi Ecclesiae firmiter perseveravissent, septem et decem dies colámnis armíllis férreis vincti stantes, deínde ‘Tybürni suspéndii supplício martyrium consummavérunt.