- Historical event:
- 22 June 1535
- English King Henry VIII had a problem with Bishop St. John Fisher, as the latter consistently upheld the Catholic Church's doctrine. St. John Fisher’s head was cut off and imp
- Historical event:
- 22 June 1535
- English King Henry VIII had a problem with Bishop St. John Fisher, as the latter consistently upheld the Catholic Church's doctrine. St. John Fisher’s head was cut off and impaled on a stake. The saint’s head was put on display on London Bridge, but was thrown into the Thames after two weeks.
On this day in 1535, Cardinal St. John Fisher was beheaded in London.
He was a Catholic Bishop of Rochester in England and was executed during the reign of King Henry VIII, who wanted to proclaim himself the head of the Church of England.
Catholics who did not recognize Henry’s divorce from his first wife, so he could marry Anne Boleyn, and those who remained loyal to the Pope in terms of church primates, were mostly persecuted and even executed as martyrs.
St. John Fisher was born in 1469 in the area of Yorkshire. He was a contemporary of Niccolò Machiavelli and Erasmus of Rotterdam, while Albrecht Dürer and Nicolaus Copernicus also belonged to his generation. It was a time of famous humanists and Renaissance artists.
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