German Gardiner
Blessed German Gardinaer | |
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Roman Catholic Church | |
| Beatified | 15 December 1929 by Pope Pius XI |
| Feast | 7 March |
German Gardiner (Germain, Jermyn) (date of birth unknown; executed at
Henry VIII was becoming more severe on Protestants and Cranmer fell under suspicion. Gardiner was (or was thought to have been) employed in drawing up a list of Cranmer's
He wrote a tract against John Frith, dated 1 August 1534. Gardiner's indictment states that he was executed for endeavouring "to deprive the King of his dignity, title, and name of Supreme Head of the English and Irish Church". Thomas Haywood, who had been condemned with him, was afterward pardoned on recanting his opinions. His other companions at the bar were John Larke, and John Ireland, a priest who had once been Thomas More's chaplain. They suffered the death of traitors at Tyburn.
German Gardinar was
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References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Bl. German Gardiner". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. The entry cites:
- Bede Camm, Lives of English Martyrs (London, 1904), i, 543–7;
- John Strype, Cranmer (1694), 163–8;
- More, Life of More (1726), 27
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