The first Protestant Bishop (although not the first Martyr) to suffer in the Marian persecution. Bishop of Gloucester. Yet he does not, as far as I understand, merit even a commemoration from the good old C of E*.
Perhaps because he wasn't a Cambridge man?
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I nominate the gentle Thomas Bilney and John Frith advocate of adiaphorism as additions to the list of ought-to- be saints.
ReplyDeleteThe martyrs of moderation should be celebrated.