RECOGNITION OF ENGLISH MARTYRS
♦ CANONISATION EXPECTED (Received December 21, 9.20 p.m.) VATICAN CITY, December 20. It is expected that the four hundredth anniversary of the martyrdom of Thomas More and John Fisher, who were beheaded in 1535 and beatified in 1887, will be celebrated by their canonisation. The Pope is receiving thousand:; of letters from England urging this honour fo ■ More and Fisher, who, it is said, w&re devoted supporters of Papal supremacy and the sacrament of marriage which are important principles to-day.
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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21354, 22 December 1934, Page 15
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