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Saint John Fisher was the Bishop of Rochester and one of the foremost Catholic scholars of Tudor England. Born in 1469 in Beverley, Yorkshire, he served as Chancellor of the University of Cambridge and was renowned for his learning, piety, and pastoral care. He was the only English bishop to refuse King Henry VIII’s Act of Supremacy. Pope Paul III created him cardinal in recognition of his courage, but Henry had him beheaded on Tower Hill on June 22, 1535 — a fortnight before his friend Thomas More suffered the same fate.

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