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«Evige Gud, du har satt martyriet som det h\u00f8yeste vitnesbyrd om den sanne tro. Hjelp oss p\u00e5 forb\u00f8nn av dine helgener John Fisher og Thomas More \u00e5 vitne med v\u00e5rt liv om den tro vi bekjenner med v\u00e5r munn. Ved v\u00e5r Herre Jesus Kristus, din s\u00f8nn …»<\/em><\/p>\n I dag minnes Kirken disse to viktigste reformasjonsmartyrene i England, og over ser man kollektb\u00f8nnen i dagens messe – og bildet \u00f8verst viser stedet for the Tower Hill scaffold, der de begge ble halshugd. <\/p>\n Katolsk.no skriver om Fisher<\/a>, som ble f\u00f8dt i 1469, bl.a.: <\/p>\n I 1504 ble han rektor i Cambridge og biskop av Rochester, og fikk snart et stort navn som predikant og sjeles\u00f8rger. Hans mangel p\u00e5 personlige ambisjoner fikk ham til \u00e5 avsl\u00e5 rikere bispeseter, for pliktene i Englands minste bisped\u00f8mme, selv om han gjennomf\u00f8rte dem samvittighetsfullt, ga ham tid til sine akademiske sysler. Han bygde ogs\u00e5 opp et av de beste biblioteker i Europa. Han erkjente fullt ut det brennende behov for stadige reformer innenfor Kirken, noe som gjaldt alle, helt fra paver og biskoper til menighetene og den enkelte katolikk. Men han var motstander av de lutherske reformid\u00e9er og skrev imot dem og forsvarte de tradisjonelle doktrinene om realpresensen og det eukaristiske offer. Han skrev fire bind mot Luther, alt mens han foretrakk b\u00f8nn og eksemplets makt fremfor diskusjon. Da kong Henrik VII d\u00f8de i 1509, var det Fisher som prekte i begravelsen. Den nye kongen, Henrik VIII, erkl\u00e6rte at ingen fyrste eller konged\u00f8mme hadde en s\u00e5 fremragende prelat, og han var det selvf\u00f8lgelige valg som skriftefar for dronning Katarina av Arag\u00f3n i 1527.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Engelske Wikipedia skriver ogs\u00e5 mye om ham<\/a>, og slik beskrives de siste ukene av hans liv:<\/p>\n In May 1535, the newly elected Pope Paul III created Fisher Cardinal Priest of San Vitale, apparently in the hope of inducing Henry to ease Fisher’s treatment. The effect was precisely the reverse: Henry forbade the cardinal’s hat to be brought into England, declaring that he would send the head to Rome instead. In June a special commission for Fisher’s trial was issued, and on Thursday, 17 June, he was arraigned in Westminster Hall before a court of seventeen, including Thomas Cromwell, Anne Boleyn’s father, and ten justices. The charge was treason, in that he denied that the king was the Supreme Head of the Church of England. Since he had been deprived of his position of Bishop of Rochester by the Act of Attainder, he was treated as a commoner, and tried by jury. The only testimony was that of Richard Rich. John Fisher was found guilty and condemned to be hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn.<\/p>\n However, a public outcry was brewing among the London populace who saw a sinister irony in the parallels between the conviction of Fisher and that of his patronal namesake, Saint John the Baptist, who was executed by King Herod Antipas for challenging the validity of Herod’s marriage to his brother’s divorc\u00e9e Herodias. For fear of John Fisher’s living through his patronal feast day, that of the Nativity of St John the Baptist on 24 June, and of attracting too much public sympathy, King Henry commuted the sentence to that of beheading, to be accomplished before 23 June, the Vigil of the feast of the Nativity of St John the Baptist. He was executed on Tower Hill on 22 June 1535. The execution had the opposite effect from that which King Henry VIII intended as it created yet another parallel with that of the martyrdom of St John the Baptist who was also beheaded; his death also happened on the feast day of Saint Alban, the first martyr of Britain.<\/p>\n Fisher’s last moments were in keeping with his life. He met death with a calm dignified courage which profoundly impressed those present. His body was treated with particular rancour, apparently on Henry’s orders, being stripped and left on the scaffold until the evening, when it was taken on pikes and thrown naked into a rough grave in the churchyard of All Hallows’ Barking, also known as All Hallows-by-the-Tower. There was no funeral prayer. A fortnight later, his body was laid beside that of Sir Thomas More in the chapel of St Peter ad Vincula within the Tower of London. Fisher’s head was stuck upon a pole on London Bridge but its ruddy and lifelike appearance excited so much attention that, after a fortnight, it was thrown into the Thames, its place being taken by that of Sir Thomas More, whose execution, also at Tower Hill, occurred on 6 July.<\/p>\n Fisher was a figure universally esteemed throughout Europe and notwithstanding the subsequent efforts of the English government, was to remain so. In the Decree of Beatification issued on 29 December 1886 by Pope Leo XIII, when 54 English martyrs were beatified, the greatest place was given to Fisher. He was later canonised, on 19 May 1935, by Pope Pius XI along with Thomas More, after the presentation of a petition by English Catholics.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I dag minnes Kirken ogs\u00e5 hl Thomas More (som er enda mer kjent), men han ble halshugget noen dager senere, 6. juli 1535. Les om ham p\u00e5 katolsk.no<\/a> og p\u00e5 engelske Wikipedia<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" «Evige Gud, du har satt martyriet som det h\u00f8yeste vitnesbyrd om den sanne tro. Hjelp oss p\u00e5 forb\u00f8nn av dine helgener John Fisher og Thomas More \u00e5 vitne med v\u00e5rt liv om den tro vi bekjenner med v\u00e5r munn. 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