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November 15

Arthur (1539)

Martyr

Practical advice

As you begin your work, support those who feel alone or intimidated without leaving for tomorrow the good that you can do today.

Biography

He died a martyr for not wanting to recognize Henry VII as the spiritual leader of England. In their Glastonbury Abbey, papal bulls, a writing against the king's divorce and a Life of Saint Thomas Beckett were discovered: all this was irrefutable proof that those monks "had a corrupt spirit and that they were traitors to His Majesty." For this "proof", Arthur and other monks were executed.

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