St. Thomas More and St. John Fisher - Martyrs for Truth

 

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Published on 7 Aug 2012

These great Saints were willing to be executed rather than compromise the truth. Father Ed Broom, OMV, preaches the homily on June 22, 2012 at St. Peter Chanel Church in Hawaiian Gardens, California.

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22nd June - Saint John Fisher and Saint Thomas More

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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. "Their consciences must save them and mine must save me." He was tried and executed for treason on June 17 1535. He was 66. St Thomas More was the Lord Chancellor. A younger man than St John Fisher, he had a large family and household to support and said he did not wish to die. "I am not so holy that I dare rush upon death," he said. But he could not accept the King as supreme head of the Church or condone his divorce. Rather than make a public pronouncement he resigned from his post and hoped to retire quietly. But the King would not accept his silence. St Thomas was arrested, imprisoned at the Tower of London for 15 months and then declared guilty of treason and condemned to death. He was executed nine days after St John Fisher. He was 57. From the scaffold he said: "I die the King's good servant, but God's first."