St John Fisher

Bishop and Theologian in Reformation and Controversy

by Vincent Nichols

John Fisher, Bishop and Chancellor of Cambridge University, was beheaded at Tower Hill on 22nd June 1535, a few weeks before Thomas More met the same fate. Fisher and More were both Catholics who were executed because of their refusal to acknowledge Henry VIII as head of the English Church.  They were canonized in 1935.

Vincent Nichols' fluent accessible and original study of John Fisher uses primary sources to demonstrate that parish and academic life on the eve of the Reformation was  more dynamic and vigorous than is usually portrayed.  Fisher comes across as a man of humility, faithfulness and outstanding courage. 

Alive Publishing 2011

232 pages