Lawrence Richardson (Blessed)

Lawrence Richardson of Great Crosby, Lancashire, was an English martyr.

Blessed

Lawrence Richardson
Detail of a sketch of a stained glass window for Notre Dame Convent, Wigan, England
Priest and Martyr
BornGreat Crosby, Lancashire, England
Died30 May 1582
Tyburn, London, England
Beatified29 December 1886 by Pope Leo XIII
Feast30 May
AttributesCrucifix, bible, noose in neck

Born Lawrence Johnson, he was the son of Richard Johnson, of Great Crosby, Lancashire, and a Fellow of Brasenose College. He was ordained priest at Douai in March 1577,[1] and afterwards, taking the name of Richardson, left for the English Mission,[2] in late July.

In 1581, Richardson was arrested in London on his way to France and imprisoned in Newgate, charged with complicity in the pretended "Rheims and Rome plot". He was executed at Tyburn in 1582, with Luke Kirby. His feast day is May 30.[3] He was beatified in 1886.

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