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Houghton, John, Blessed

1910 New Catholic Dictionary

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Martyr, born Essex, England, 1487; died Tyburn, England, 1535. He was educated at Cambridge, graduating LL.B., 1497, and later LL.D. and D.D. Ordained priest in 1501, he entered the Carthusian novitiate at the London Charterhouse, and was professed in 1516. Refusing to take the Oath of Supremacy, he was imprisoned in the Tower and hanged. Beatified, 1888.

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Entry for 'Houghton, John, Blessed'. 1910 New Catholic Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​ncd/​h/houghton-john-blessed.html. 1910.
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