Luigi Posted March 4, 2017 Share Posted March 4, 2017 Latest News at Buckfast Abbey (southwest England) St. Thomas More's hair shirt now enshrined for public veneration BUCKFAST, England (CNS) -- The hair shirt worn by St. Thomas More as he contemplated a martyr's death in the Tower of London has been enshrined for public veneration. The folded garment made from goat's hair was encased above an altar in Buckfast Abbey, a Benedictine monastery in southwest England. St. Thomas, a former lord chancellor of England, wore the shirt while he was incarcerated in the Bell Tower of the Tower of London while awaiting execution for opposing the Protestant reforms of King Henry VIII. He was beheaded July 6, 1535, after telling a crowd gathered on London's Tower Hill that he was "always the king's good servant, but God's first." Benedictine Abbot David Charlesworth told Catholic News Service Nov. 21 that the shirt had not been shown in public before. To read this article in full, please click here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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