Saint John Fisher

xiv, 310 pp. A biography of Saint John Fisher, who was executed by King Henry VIII for maintaining papal primacy rather than accepting the king as head of the Church of England. A liberal arts college in Rochester, New York bears his name, as do a number of churches and other institutions. Includes images of Fisher, Lady Margaret Beaufort, Catherine of Aragon, Erasmus of Rotterdam, Archbishop William Warham of Canterbury, Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, Thomas Cromwell Earl of Essex, and reproductions of two historical manuscripts.