Thomas Johnson (monk)

Thomas Johnson, OCart, (died 20 September 1537) was a Carthusian who was killed by starvation in Tudor England.

On May 18, 1537, 18 lay brothers and 20 choir monks of the London Charterhouse were arrested to force them to sign the Oath of Supremacy.

[1] Like his brothers, after his imprisonment in Newgate Prison, he was chained standing up and left to starve.

Margaret Clement was temporarily able to bring him and the other Carthusians some food, by entering in disguise, but after King Henry VIII became suspicious from their continued survival, this was ended.

Thomas Johnson and the other Carthusian Martyrs were beatified by Pope Leo XIII in 1886.

The martyrs of the London Charterhouse (the Carthusians left for starvation at the upper left edge)