Saint John Fisher, Bishop & Martyr ~ The Imaginative Conservative

Saint John Fisher, Bishop & Martyr ~ The Imaginative Conservative

Saint John Fisher, Bishop & Martyr If more Catholic Bishops were like Fisher more Catholic politicians would be like St. Thomas More June 22nd John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester Born at Beverly, 1469 – martyred June 22, 1535, Tower of London Canonized (with Saint Thomas More) 1935 Saint John Fisher studied theology in Cambridge, England and became Bishop of Rochester. His friend Saint Thomas More wrote of him, “I reckon in this realm no one man, …

Why St. John Fisher lost his head—and why it still matters

When the Catholic Church commemorates the martyrdoms of Saints John Fisher and Thomas More every June 22nd, people tend to think that their deaths were just collateral damage in King Henry VIII’s spat with the [...]