ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN NOVEMBER Saints celebrated on the 15th of November WELCOME! BLESSED RICHARD WHITING, ABBOT AND MARTYR Glastonbury Abbey Richard Whiting was the last Abbot of Glastonbury and martyr, parentage and date of birth unknown, was executed on November 15, 1539. He was probably educated in the claustral school at Glastonbury, whence he proceeded to Cambridge, graduating as M.A. in 1483 and D.D. in 1505. If, as is probable, he was already a monk when he went to Cambridge he must have received the habit from John Selwood, Abbot of Glastonbury between 1456 and 1493. He was ordained deacon in 1500 and priest in 1501, and held for some years the office of chamberlain of his monastery. In February, 1525, Richard Bere, Abbot of Glastonbury, died, and the community, after deciding to elect his successor per formam compromissi , which places the selection in the hands of some one person of note, agreed to request Cardinal Wolsey to make the choice of an...