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Showing posts with label Tower of London. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tower of London. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 2, 2024

A "Merry Christmas" from Saint John Fisher to Thomas Cromwell

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I saw this letter cited on a Facebook post and wanted to research it more: On December 22, 1534, the great, deposed bishop of Rochester, Joh...
Monday, April 22, 2019

Also in the Tower in April 1534: Doctor Nicholas Wilson

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After remembering the 485th anniversary of the beginning of St. Thomas More's imprisonment in the Tower of London last week, I noted t...
Tuesday, February 12, 2019

The Protestant Throckmorton

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Sir Nicholas Throckmorton died on February 12, 1571; he was a survivor of the Tudor succession, restored to favor under Mary I in spite...
Thursday, January 12, 2017

Mary's Eulogizer, Bishop John White, RIP

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John White, the deprived Bishop of Winchester, died on January 12, 1560. He was in and out of prison during the Tudor era, according t...
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Monday, October 19, 2015

St. Philip Howard, Martyr in Chains

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The story of St. Philip Howard exemplifies both conversion and martyrdom, as this site demonstrates : Queen Elizabeth I became aware of ...
Wednesday, June 3, 2015

480 Years Ago Today: St. Thomas More to his Daughter Meg

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Thomas More wrote to his daughter Meg on June 3, 1535 describing the latest interrogation he'd been called to in the Tower of L...
Sunday, October 19, 2014

The Married Martyr: St. Philip Howard

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The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops features St. Philip Howard on their website about marriage, citing his conversion and retur...
Saturday, July 5, 2014

St. Thomas More to His Daughter Meg

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Beyond his martyrdom and his status as a patron saint, Thomas More provides us with such examples of humanity that tear the veil between...
Thursday, October 24, 2013

Prayers and More from the Tower of London

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As a follow up to my post on the launch of The 1535 Society, here is a report from the event on Tuesday: The Anglican Bishop and the Cath...
Tuesday, October 22, 2013

"The 1535 Society": Where Was St. Thomas More Held in the Tower of London?

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According to this story in The Telegraph , Sir Richard Dannatt, Constable of the Tower of London, is launching a campaign to reburbish par...
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Saturday, June 22, 2013

St. John Fisher's Tower Works

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St. Thomas More's devotional writings while in the Tower of London are well-known: A Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation; Treatise...
Saturday, July 28, 2012

Thomas Cromwell, RIP

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Henry VIII attainted Thomas Cromwell, whom he'd just created the Earl of Essex in April of 1540 and condemned him to the traitor's d...
Friday, July 6, 2012

Blessed Thomas Alfield, Fallen and Risen

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(AUFIELD, ALPHILDE, HAWFIELD, OFFELDUS; alias BADGER). Priest , born at Gloucestershire; martyred at Tyburn, 6 July, 1585. He was educat...
Wednesday, May 9, 2012

The Tudors and Torture

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Nancy Bilyeau, author of The Crown , provides some information on torture in Tudor and early Stuart England on the English Historical Fi...
Wednesday, October 19, 2011

St. Philip Howard: Affliction in This Life; Glory with Jesus in the Next

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St. Philip Howard died in the Tower of London on October 19, 1595. The Roman Catholic Diocese of Arundell and Brighton features this biograp...
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Saturday, October 15, 2011

More on St. John Fisher

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Thanks to a facebook friend who liked my post yesterday on John Fisher becoming the Bishop of Rochester in 1504, I found out about these pra...
Wednesday, August 17, 2011

St. Peter in Chains: Tower of London

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Edmund Dudley and Richard Empson, counsellors to the late King Henry VII, were executed on August 17, 1510 and buried in the Chapel Royal of...