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Wednesday of the 29th Week in Ordinary Time Saint of the Day: St. John Houghton, 1486-1535; native of Essex; became prior of the Carthusian Charterhouse in London; he opposed King Henry VIII's Acts of Succession and Supremacy, and was arrested, but released temporarily; he was the first to refuse to swear the oath of Supremacy, and was arrested and executed at Tyburn, with four companions; he was one of the 40 martyrs of England and Wales Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 10/25/23 Gospel: Luke 12:39-48