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PERTH, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1935.
PhoneRignB 5447 SIXTY-FIRST YEAR.
Canonisation of Two English Martyrs Defenders of Papacy and Christian Marriage sation, anti who hoped in the name oi rapidly to the Bill of Attainder , pass that noble national /hero, Blessed ed against him, which involved the Thomas More, to embrace again in the forfeiture of all his personal estate and unity of the '1rue Church their bro- his imprisonment during .the King's thers on the other side of the Channel. pleasure. Subsequently he was John Fisher was ars. eldest son ot doned on payment of a fine. The parend a merchant of Beverley, Yorkshire, came when he refused to take the oath w!tere he was born about the year of succession acknowledging as legiti Completing his primary edu- mate the heirs of Henry and cati.,11 in his native tam. he came in Boleyn. During his imprisonm Anne ent he 14e4 to Cambridge, where he obtained was created Cardinal Pries t. Henry his Bachelor of Arts degree in three forbade the Cardinal's hat 1*' to years Two years later he graduated brought into England, sayin would as Master of Arts. and was the same send the head to Rome for githeinstea d. year elected a Fellow of his College and So it befell. Ile was tried as a commade Vicar of Northallerton, York moner, found aktilty, and beheaded on shire. About the year 1494 he became Tower Ilill. He met death a chaplain and confe4or to !Countess calm, dignified courage, which with moved Beaufort. mother of King Henry VII. all present. His body was dishonBecoming a Doctor of Divinity in 1:i01. oured even after his death , but now. be was elected Vice -Chancellor of Cam- 100 years later. he is raised bridge University. Three years later highest honours on earth—the to .the he was consecrated Bishop of Roches- pion .of Papal Supremacy and chamof the ter. and at the saints time elected Chary indissolubility of marriage. cellor of Cambridge University, to Blessed Thomas More was born in which post he was appointed for life. London on February 7. 1477. the son of During this same period he acted as a barrister. When thirteen years of tutor to Prince Henry. afterwards age he was placed in household ot Henry VII. In 1:-.A2 Blessed John Cardinal Morton, whothe was so attractwas nominated as one of the English ed by the boy's brightness of disposirepresentatives at the Fifth Lateran tion and BLESSED THOMAS MORE. keenness of intellect that he Council, but was unable to attend. In sent him Oxford. His father made to BLESSED JOHN FISHER. addition to his gifts of preachhim an allowance barely suffic The glad tidings are to haild from ing. Fisher had agreat genuine zeal for learn- supply the necessaries of life. ient to From R ome within the last few h is fame as a lawyer was fast indays that ing, and induced Erasmus to visit Oxford he was admitted as a law stuthe Holy Father has ratifie Camb ridge . Indee d he has been nam- dent to Lincoln's Inn, where his great creasing, and he came into favour d the canonisation of Blessed Thomas More and ed. though with small authority, as ability attracted the attention of the with Wolsey and the King. In 1516 the author of the treatise against governors, who Blessed John Fisher, and has appo inted he became a Privy Councillor, and lectu him rer appo intLuther, which gained for Henry VIII. at Furnival's ed Easter Sunday for Inn for three successive the ceremony of three years later was permanently atthe title Fidei Defensor. canonisation. When the years. Besid tached to the Court. He attended in question of Henry's divorce arose, found time es his law studies More to write poetry in both A meeting of the Cardi Henry's suite at the -Field of the Fishe r becam nals, e Cons the Queen's chief sup - Latin and English, and to cultiv ultors and officials of ate Cloth of Gold,' and in 1521 was knightporter and most trusted counsellor. the acquaintanc the Sacred Cone of a large body of gregation of Rites was held on ed and glade sub-treasurer to the King Ile acted for the Queen in the Le- scholars and learn the ed men. 't9th. ult., in the In 1497 He became veryFather, to consid presence of the Holy gates' Court with a startling plainness More met Erasmus, who paid several King. who frequ intimate with the ently came an unbider the Cause of Canof speech, declaring that he was pre - long visits to Chels ea, thus cementing den guest to his house onisation. The to enjoy his t hree hours and, meeting lasted for pared, like John the Baptist, to die a friendship which lasted till death. conversation. The Lutheran contro w ere agreed that it is understood, all for the indissolubility of marriage. During this period More read assiduversy had at this time begun to spread Once again, in 1529, when the "Long ously the works the miracles attributed to the two of the Fathers, and throughout Europe, and More was Parliament- began, the encroachments his mind was occup and that they martyrs were authentic ied with the quesdrawn into it. In October, 1529, More deserved' canonisation. on the Church, Fisher warned them tion of vocation to It is succeeded Wolsey as ritatively known that the that such acts could only end in the Though he lived a lifethe priesthood. Pope autho of prayer and England, a post never Chancellor of was exceedingly pleas destr before held by uctio n of ed the Churc with t he large h in Eng- penance, he decided against the religi a layman. In this office he achieved In the following year Blessed ous state. mistrusting his powe him from number of petitions sent to land. rs of unparalleled success as a judge. His canonise England, praying him to John and two other Bishops appealed perseverance. troubles began with Henry's claim to to the Apostolic See against these enFather isthe two martyrs. The Holy Having achieved such success at the Supremacy of the Church. More op read all reported to have personally croachments The three Bisho ps were Bar, More was, in 1504. elected a mem the letters and other posed the king in regard to the Which ran petitions, arrested in consequence, but only for ber of Parliament. and diin vorce this into . the Papal Supremacy, and the capac four figures. these two When a short time, as Fisher was present at ity opposed the extortionate methods laws against heretics. I3eati are raised to the Altar the Convocation of 1531. when the of Henr of the Quickly he s VII. y In 1505 he married fell from the royal favour, and in May, clergy was forced to acknowledge Will beChurch on Easter Sunday, they Colte Jane the . Their married life was 1532, had to resign the Chan ised since first English saints canon- Henry as Supreme Head of the Church supremely happy, and of it were born ship. His financial means w,ere cellor Year, most the Reformation. greatThis in England, to which, however, Fisher three daughters. Margaret. Elizabeth. ly reduced, but he appropriately, is the 400th. had added the phrase "so far as faced it cheerfully. anniver God's and Cecelia. and a son, John. sary of He lived a secluded life for the UnBlessed both martyrdoms, law permits." Fisher then began to fortunately eighteen months, but neutrality next death at John Fisher having suffered preach publicly against the divorce, after their his wife died six years did marri age, but More married not suit Henry, and More's and was arrested. and BlesseTower Hill on June 22, 1. name was Events moved on again shortly afterwards. d 6 35, inclu ded fh Thom the as Bill of Attainder. More at the same Place on the ever, the King found it expe Howgether they following July 6th. Toremove it. Like John Fishe dient to were proclaimed r, he re bj, Pope Leo Blessed fused to take the oath of XIII. on December 056, along succe ssion. 29. and was committed to the with many other martyrs English r. He spent his days here in prayeTowe Opened fourTheir joint cause was re' r and penitential exercise, never losing years ago with a view the his gaitn advan cemen ety. t On July 1. More was indicted to the final stage. English for high treason before Lthusias Catholic s have a tic over t mission of twenty, and sprcial Comiroin)ss. of Great the Cause fsn denounced Rich, the Solicitor - Gene Britain sendi ral as a per juror. lawyers Last year a band of ng peti The jury found him guilty . the •snn took to Rome a and he was sentenced vro to be hanged at petit. ani orley, nontsation T yburn . but as in 131essed bearing sentence was alteredFisher's case. the 170,000 si. to beheading on naturtion, exclai ,e on receiv Tower Hilling The story of his la,' d with pleas that pet; days is one of tende T1,agnificent. it • ure "It • rest beauty an unsurpassable fortitude. ael:„b,1°,,°1 of is monumental rThe execu tion Engla took nd's marts-10 place on Tower Hill on July s' ,-) 113rema seed from R. _L .( cv has truly fiecon the body being appropriate c ly buried astonishi_: h is in the Church of St. Engiandi: springing harvest for the the truly Primacy he had died. Peter. for whose Church in As the p_s May the magnificent "Osservatore Rore d, it was 16n t:athmarke oii„ The New School at Wanneroo opened on Monday last with a these two martyrs to the devotion of over wh ut Catho not only Engroll call and the Vicar of Chris See of Rome lics 0 arden of 62 children. a fact which proves tlo, urgency of a Catholic t, tly desired the world School in re ap an abundant harvest continue to the eanoni the district Wanneroo is MINX- welleottipped with a Church and of souls f School. the one T'"P r!l'Ir("I in Mary 's nrvIr464111. 4.4.-.04.-46111.
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