Bl. John Beche - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online
Bl. John Beche - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online
Bl. John Beche, Roman Catholic English Martyr and a friend of St. John Fisher and St. Thomas More. John was abbot of Colchester Abbey. A Benedictine, he received a doctorate from Oxford in 1515 . He took the Oath of Supremacy in 1534 , but then saw his own abbey being plundered. The deaths of Sts. John Fisher and Thomas More horrified him as well. When he refuted King Henry VIIIs right to suppress the English monasteries, he was arrested for treason and hanged, drawn, and quartered at Colchester. Feastday Dec 1
Bl. John Beche, Roman Catholic English Martyr and a friend of St. John Fisher and St. Thomas More. John was abbot of Colchester Abbey. A Benedictine, he received a doctorate from Oxford in 1515 . He took the Oath of Supremacy in 1534 , but then saw his own abbey being plundered. The deaths of Sts. John Fisher and Thomas More horrified him as well. When he refuted King Henry VIIIs right to suppress the English monasteries, he was arrested for treason and hanged, drawn, and quartered at Colchester. Feastday Dec 1
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