Walter Pierson
Carthusian monk and martyr
Feast: 10 June (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
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.
The cause
The cause continues. No postulation address is published here yet. Favours received through this person’s intercession, and offers of help, are best sent to the religious order or congregation they belonged to, or to the diocese where the cause was opened; either will pass them to the postulation.
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
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.