biography
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| lived:
| (1469–1535)
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| biography:
| Clergyman and humanist, born in Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire, NE England, UK. He studied at Cambridge, where he became professor of divinity (1503). He zealously promoted the New Learning, and resisted the Lutheran schism. In 1527 he pronounced against the divorce of Henry VIII, refused the oath of succession, and was sent with More to the Tower. In 1535 he was made a cardinal, and soon after was tried and beheaded on Tower Hill. He was canonized in 1935; feast day 22 June. |
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