Tuesday is the feast day of the patron saint of our church at Tiptree. d. 1535  A native of Essex and prior of the London charterhouse. As such, he was the first to oppose Henry VIII's Acts of Succession and Supremacy, giving to his monks and the whole of England a magnificent example of fidelity to the Catholic faith, for which he was martyred at Tyburn, with four companions. He is the proto-martyr of the post-reformation English martyrs. Beatified in 1886. Canonized in 1970 as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales. He is shown as a Carthusian, carrying a noose.  The painting depicting him in our Tiptree church is by the Spanish artist Zurburan—an exhibition of his work has just opened at the National Gallery—and is one of a number painted for a Carthusian church in Spain.  In our picture is shown holding his heart out as an offering.  Onlookers heard him say as his living heart was cut out of his chest during the execution. “Lord, what will you do with my heart?”