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Saint John Fisher and Saint Thomas More - Independent Catholic News

22nd June - 

Saint John Fisher and Saint Thomas More - Independent Catholic News: Both saints held high office in England but submitted to martyrdom rather than accept Henry VIII's claim to be head of the Church. St John Fisher was a learned teacher and chancellor at Cambridge university and a friend of the humanist Erasmus. He became Bishop of Rochester in 1504 at the age of 35. When asked to accept the King as head of the Church he said he could not. 'I do not condemn any other men's consciences,' he said.

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