Saint John Fisher, Bishop & Martyr If more Catholic Bishops were like Fisher more Catholic politicians would be like St. Thomas More June 22nd John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester Born at Beverly, 1469 - martyred June 22, 1535, Tower of London Canonized (with Saint Thomas More) 1935 Saint John Fisher studied theology in Cambridge, England [...]
The final word on the legacy of John Fisher and Thomas More, and the final judgment (under God) on why we should see them as heroes, is given by G. K. Chesterton, a man who proves in his very self that the killing of More and Fisher did not kill learning, laughter or holiness: "There [...]
The Catholic Church canonized Saints Thomas More and John Fisher in 1935, only two years after the appearance of "The English Way," a work edited by one of the most important Christian humanists and publishers of the twentieth century, Maisie Ward, and which looks at the lives, ideas, and deaths of the great Roman Catholic [...]