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...Blessed Germain Gardiner was left as the scapegoat to suffer for the
plot, while Henry VIII, still valuing Bishop Stephen Gardiner's efforts
in supporting both Henry's "Great Matter" and his more "conservative"
reformation of the Church, spared his uncle.
Along with Gardiner,
Blessed John Larke, friend of St. Thomas More and former rector of
Chelsea (More's parish) and Blessed John Ireland, also connected with
St. Thomas More and Chelsea, were executed for denying Henry VIII's
Supremacy. Robert Singleton, a parish priest, was also executed under a
charge of treason, but he has not been beatified. John Heywood,
the playwright and grandfather of John Donne was also on the scaffold
at Tyburn sentenced to death, but he recanted and was spared. He also
had connections to St. Thomas More and survived the ups and downs of the
Tudor succession until Elizabeth I's reign. Then he went into exile in
Mechelen, Belgium where he died around 1580. (Read entire post.)
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