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6) Edward Powell, Richard Fetherstone, and Thomas Abell (Bl.; d. 1540).
P., F. (also Featherstone) and A. (also Abel) were prominent Catholic
theologians who had been chaplains to Catherine of Aragon (F. had also been
tutor to Mary Tudor) and who refused to take the oath of supremacy to Henry
VIII as head of the church in England. They were arrested at different
times for different offences but all had been attainted of treason and found
guilty by the time they were hanged, drawn, and quartered at Smithfield on
this day. P., F., and A. were beatified in 1886.
Executed with P., F., and A., but convicted instead of heresy and so burned
at the stake rather than suffering the punishments prescribed for treason,
were three protestant martyrs, the preachers Robert Barnes, William Jerome,
and Thomas Garrard.
Oh even-handed Henry!!
BMC
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