SAINT FEAST DAY 22 JUNE: ST JOHN FISHER AND ST THOMAS MORE

SAINT JOHN FISHER AND SAINT THOMAS MORE, MARTYRS

Saint John Fisher was born in 1469; he studied at Cambridge University, was ordained, became Bishop of Rochester. He was a pastoral bishop, charitable to the poor, a man of prayer, and a persistent opponent of the errors of the Protestant Reformation.

Saint Thomas More was born in 1477, studied at Oxford University, married and had one son and three daughters. He became Chancellor of England. His writings include ‘Utopia’, and many prayers and letters which reveal his spirituality. Both were executed on the orders of King Henry VIII.

PRAYER:

Father,

you confirm the true faith

with the crown of martyrdom.

May the prayers of Saints John Fisher and Thomas More

give us the courage to proclaim our faith

by the witness of our lives.

Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,

who lives and reigns with you

in the unity of the Holy Spirit,

God, for ever and ever.

Amen.

📷 1. Saint Thomas More, 2. Saint John Fisher, 3. The Traitors' Gate, Tower of London, through which St Thomas More was brought by boat into the Tower of London to be executed. Ann Boleyn, wife of Henry VIII, was brought in through the same gate.

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