Celebrating some saints!

June 22 is the feast day of both St. John Fisher and St. Thomas More, both of whom are, I expect, admired by, and inspiring to, many MOJ readers -- not only for the obvious reason (More and lawyers), but because of their courageous stands for the freedom of the Church as against the overreaches of the "state".

Don't forget, though, June 23, which is the feast day for, inter alia, St. Thomas Garnet, an English Jesuit who was martyred 400 years ago this year, after being tortured by officials seeking information about his uncle, Fr. Henry Garnet, S.J.  Garnet was told his life would be spared if he took the Oath of Allegiance, but he refused.  He was executed at Tyburn, insisting that he was "the happiest man this day alive."  (As it happens, June 23 is also the birthday of my son, Thomas Garnett.  And, as it happens, St. Thomas Garnet's father -- Richard Garnet, Henry's brother -- was expelled from Balliol college, thus ending his hope for an academic career, after a statue of the Blessed Mother was found in his rooms.)

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