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SIXTY-FIRST YEAR.
"HarbinAers of the Second Sprin C ANONISATION OF TWO ENGLISH SAINTS
Monsignor Hinsley's Address to the Pope cil lt.) Rollie i tseh, in the service of 60d the Christian faith and in the obedience due to t he Most Holy Roman Church.' ( Codex Vaticanus 5313 fol. 14 seq.) "This act of faith was thus loudly proclaimed by Henry VIII. in the presence of Leo N., of the Cardinals and of all the Ambassadors of Europe. Those faithful subjects of the King. John Fisher and Thomas More. t welve years later, endorsed their faith not in words, but by their blood. They were done to death by that same king for their fidelity to the very faith which he himself had declared to be the unshaken faith of his kingdom. "Faithful to the King, they were not less faithful to the supremacy of Divine truth. 'To Caesar the things that are Caesar's, to God the things that are God's.' Martyrdom was the crown these heroes of religious liberty merited by the sanctity of their lives. "John Fisher was born in 1469, in the shadow of the glorious Minster of Beverley. the shrine w here still rests the body of another St. John—the Patron of the City and Diocese of Beverley. In the Grammar School nigh to the Cathedral he received the first intimations of his vocation and his initial training for the Priesthood. From Beverley school he i toI c
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became famous for his learning. A Priestly Model. "Ile is reckoned one of the glories of that famous seat of learning and is accounted among its chief benefactors and one of its founders. But brighter grew his fame for holiness of life, as an exemplary priest and later as a Bishop, model Pastor of souls. "His devotion to the Divine Redeemer and to the Blessed Mother of God, to the most Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist. his spirit of penance and of sacrifice, his charity to the poor, his fearless defence of religion, were virtues which justified Thomas More in the estimate of him: 'In B LESSED JOHN FISHER. BLESSED THOMAS MORE. this realm is no one man in wisapproved dom. learning and long o ininnunnumwuninwimmummonrodrotion 011111111111111111:1111111111111111111111110111111111111111111111111111111 virtue together. mete to be A ddressing the Holy Father matched and compared with him.' solutism are raised to the hona fter the reading of the "De "The Blessed Bishop's heaven- ours of our altars. Tuto" Decree, Archbishop Hinly Patron was St. John the Bapsley said: An Eager Vigil. tist. He kept carefully before "To the voice of the Father of him in his study room a figure of 'The Decree just promulgateo All the Faithful we listen always the head of the Saintly Precussot. Inspires such high hopes that we with filial gratitude and glad obeThat head seems a prophetic await with keen confidence the dience. The Catholics of Engsymbol which links the fate of happy day when we may hear land have over and above these two Johns. inflexible cham- the Roman Pontiff from the general motives of gratitude. pions of the sanctity of marriage. Chair of St. Peter proclaim that which all Catholics and every victims both of lustful tyrants. the two brightest figures of the c lass owe to you, their own perlater history of England shall be Joyous in Death. sonal special reasons for thankr aised to that supreme honour. fulness. We know the particu"As John Fisher was thc model Then whereeyer the language ot lar fatherly love and apostolic of holiness in the priestly life, so Fisher and More is spoken, the was Thomas More among the s°licitude You have ever shown voice of the unfailing Master of f or our country. laity. More's whole life may be the faith will be heard with ven- "We come therefore, to our summed up in the text: 'Serve eration, beloved Father to express with enthusiasm, with the Lord in gladness.' To his our gratitude for all the interest you mummwmnimmunnonmomnnamnsminummo spirit of penance and of prayer, gratitude by Catholics and even have taken and to his studies—humanistic, legal, by non-Catholics of good will all the labour and s tudy you have expended on the philosophical and theological— who are acquainted with the -hisc ause of the canonisation of out he added a supernatural joy. His torical questions of the XVI. cenzlorious -martyrs, John Fisher. noly merriment was with hiin in tury. Bishop of Rochester, and Thomas the bosom of his family, in the "In the well-known sermon of More Chancellor of EnOand. Court of the King, among the Cardinal Newman, preached on "Most Holy Father. England lawyers, and in the law court; it the occasion of the first National in the days of old, was so failed hiin not even in the prison Synod of the English Hierarchy renowned for its loyalty to the Set the Tower of London and on —restored by Pius IX. on 29th. of •of Rome that it earned the title the scaffold. November. 1850—that great conof Patrimony of Peter. "The four hundredth anniver- vert declared that the blood of King HentY VIII: himself. in 1521. sary of the glorious death of our martyrs would merit for the m ade the following solemn deohn Fisher occurs on J Church in England a 'Second claration, ambassathrough his Thomas that of Tune. of and Spring.' dor, John Clerke. Bishop of Bath year. More 6th. on of July this and Wells, These memorable dates will be "May the intercession of the !:resent to who was charged to celebrated with deeper earnest- new Confessors and Martrys. A ssertio Pope Leo N. the book Septem Sacramen torness by the Cathailics of England. Tohn Fisher and Thomas More. Urn adversus Lutherum.” p without 'hasten the blossoming of that erhaps by bore the King's own name.which distinction by certainty all Ca- second spring and obtain that the . England's Pristine Faith. tholics the world over, if these fields already white for the harty"MY Englan ' thus spoke defenders of the unity of the vest may bring forth still more nrY \ITT. through his special Church and of the rightful free- abundant fruit of souls to be .noand has never dom of conscience against the gathered into the barns of the Yiel d to A MOST REV. 1/R 'LINSLEY. any nearer nation—no usurpations of a tyrannous ab- Heavenly Husbandman." -•44-••••-4••-••-•4•-4•-404.-.••-•••••-••••-•••-••••-4*-4•-4•-4••- m•-•4-4•-400-4140.---40-4*-4•