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Determined to divorce his wife and marry a younger woman, though this is not allowed in the Catholic Church, King Henry the Eighth set up his own national church, to impose his will. These two leading Englishmen, John Fisher a bishop and Thomas More a high political leader, refused to accept this, and for their refusal, the king had them beheaded, within two weeks of each other. Being fellow servants of God in this matter, who defended the Catholic faith in England and the unbreakable union of Catholic marriage, the Catholic Church celebrates these two saints on the same feast day.
Determined to divorce his wife and marry a younger woman, though this is not allowed in the Catholic Church, King Henry the Eighth set up his own national church, to impose his will. These two leading Englishmen, John Fisher a bishop and Thomas More a high political leader, refused to accept this, and for their refusal, the king had them beheaded, within two weeks of each other. Being fellow servants of God in this matter, who defended the Catholic faith in England and the unbreakable union of Catholic marriage, the Catholic Church celebrates these two saints on the same feast day.
