Talk:John Fisher

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:There is also a roman catholic boy's school named The John Fisher School, in Purley, England. It is the only school to be called The John Fisher School, as it was founded principally before Fisher was cannonized
to here since
# a college is a type of school, and we need to know which other kinds of schools besides the college (and what countries, if any, since the vagueness and the difficulty of world-wide verification raise that possibility) the editor is excluding, and
# "principally" is unencyclopedically vague: when was it "first founded", and what further events, that in some sense could be called further foundings, took place later?
# as written, the word "as" implies a relation between the uniqueness of the name and the timing. Ah! This is a school without "St." in its name. Sooo...
Is this verifiable?:
: The Roman Catholic boys' school in Purley, England is named The John Fisher School after him. The lack of "St." or "Saint" in its name reflects its history's beginning before his canonization.
"Only" is of very little encyclopedic interest, since we can leave it to Guiness to settle bar bets.  That may leave only the need for Dab'n between Purley, London & Purley-On-Thames.--Jerzy•t 21:44, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
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message: A temporary subpage at User:Polbot/fjc/John Fisher was automatically created by a perl script, based on this article at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges. The subpage should either be merged into this article, or moved and disambiguated. Polbot (talk) 20:43, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
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message: In November 1529, the "Long Parliament" of Henry's reign began its series of encroachments on the Church. Fisher, as a member of the upper house, at once warned Parliament that such acts could only end in the utter destruction of the Church in England. On this the Commons, through their speaker, complained to the king that the bishop had disparaged Parliament,
This sentence ends the section Defense of Catherine of Aragon and is then duplicted at the beginning of the next section, Henry Attacks the Church. One or the other needs to go. Most concerned editor should choose.Buster Seven Talk 01:02, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
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message: "Catholic piety conventionally explains the scarlet robes that Cardinals wear as a sign of their readiness to shed their blood for the sake of the Christian gospel. This is an edifying thought: but as a matter of fact, in the whole millenium-long history of the cardinalate, only one member of the Sacred College has actually ever suffered martyrdom. That man was John Fisher. (...)
He had many friends among the bishops (...). But one by one, they parted company from him, succumbing to the threats of their implacable royal master, renouncing the Pope, the unity of Catholic Europe. That growing isolation was the measure of Fisher's courage, a measure by which all his brother bishops proved so notably lacking. Maybe absolute integrity is destined always to fall foul of absolute power." (Eamon Duffy: Saints, Sacrilege and Sedition, p. 150)--Analogia (talk) 08:17, 15 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I have added the first para of this to the article, as it is quite notable.Rick Jelliffe (talk) 13:19, 15 October 2023 (UTC)
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message: This article is seriously biased using terms that can not be justified and not dealing properly with his principal role in plots against the Tudor state.
--2.127.214.169 (talk) 21:18, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
replies: text:  Without specific details, it is not possible to act on this, IMHO. Rick Jelliffe (talk) 12:47, 15 October 2023 (UTC)
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message: I think it should simply be mentioned that he is honoured in some Calendar of Saints of the Church of England and other provinces of the Anglican Communion. It makes absolutely no sense to mention those calendars were he is absent. We can't forget that the Anglican Communion title of saint is merely honorific, their churches have no mechanism to beatify and canonize saints like the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Churches.Mistico (talk) 18:43, 22 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Anglican Communion Calendar of Saints

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