St. John Houghton, 17th century portrait by Francisco Zurbaran. Saint John Houghton, , (c. 1486-London, 4 May 1535) was a Carthusian hermit and Catholic priest and the first English Catholic martyr to die as a result of the Act of Supremacy by King Henry VIII of England. He was also the first member of his Order to die as a martyr.

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