John Fisher Beheaded
June 22, 1535
The elderly Cardinal John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, was led to Tower Hill and beheaded for refusing to accept Henry VIII's supremacy over the English church. He carried a copy of the New Testament and opened it at random to a verse about eternal life before laying his neck on the block.
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Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.
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