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Augustine Webster

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Saint Augustine Webster was an English Catholic martyr.

He was educated at Cambridge University. He became the prior of Our Lady of Melwood, a Carthusian house at Epworth, on the Isle of Axholme, in north Lincolnshire, in 1531. He was imprisoned on the orders of Thomas Cromwell when he refused to take the Oath of Supremacy and was hanged, beheaded and quartered at Tyburn.

He was canonised in 1971 as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales

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