John Fisher, beheaded 22 June 1535; chancellor of Cambridge University; bishop of Rochester; dedicated pastor of souls; renowned for his preaching and educational reforms; defender of Church tradition against Luther, and of the Roman primacy against Henry VIII. Thomas More, beheaded 6 July 1535; humanist and chancellor of England; close friend of Erasmus; wrote Utopia; refused to support Henry VIII's divorce of Queen Catherine and his Act of Supremacy; patron of lawyers, statesmen, and politicians.