Bl. John Forest - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online

Bl. John Forest - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online



Bl. John Forest, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr. the confessor of the first wife of King Henry VIII, Queen Catherine of Aragon. He became a Franciscan at Greenwich at the age of seventeen and studied at Oxford. John opposed Henry’s divorce and the suppression of religious orders. Because of this he was arrested at Newgate and ordered to agree to the Oath of Supremacy. Refusing, John was dragged on a hurdle to Smithfield and then burned to death at the stake. A wooden statue of St. Derfel was burned with John. He was beatified in 1886. Feast May 22

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