Walter Pierson

Who they were

At London in England, Blessed martyrs Thomas Green, priest, and Walter Pierson, monk of the local Charterhouse, who, for having opposed King Henry VIII's claim to supreme rights in church matters, were shut up in a filthy prison, where, worn away by hunger and sickness, they met a glorious death.

The miracles

As a martyr he was raised to the altars without a miracle.

Why that counted as sanctity

The Roman Martyrology remembers him on 10 June as a monk of the London Charterhouse who died of hunger and sickness in prison for opposing King Henry VIII's claim over the Church.

Connected on this site

• Thomas Green the Carthusian Blessed
  “At London in England, Blessed martyrs Thomas Green, priest, and Walter Pierson, monk of the local Charterhouse, who, for having opposed King Henry VIII's claim to supreme rights in church matters, were shut up in a filthy prison, where, worn away by hunger and sickness, they met a glorious death.” — this site's research