Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Standing out against all the bishops of England...

When that great saint Thomas More, Chancellor of England, was on trial for his life for daring to defy Henry VIII, one of his prosecutors asked him if it did not worry him that he was standing out against all the bishops of England.

He replied: ‘My lord, for one bishop of your opinion, I have a hundred saints of mine.’

- Recalled by A.N. Wilson (originally posted by Wintery Knight)

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