Once I Was A Clever Boy: Abbot of Colchester

Once I Was A Clever Boy

Showing posts with label Abbot of Colchester. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Abbot of Colchester. Show all posts

Saturday, 15 November 2014

Martyred Benedictines of 1539

Today is the 475th anniversary of the martyrdoms by hanging, drawing and quartering of the last abbots of Glastonbury and Reading and the...

Wednesday, 1 December 2010

The last Abbot of Colchester

December 1st 1539 saw the third martyrdom of an English Benedictine abbot that autumn, with that of the Abbot of Colchester following thos...

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Once I Was A Clever Boy: I am a Catholic and a historian based in Oxford, where I am a member of Oriel College. My research, for a long delayed D.Phil., is a study of Richard Fleming, Bishop of Lincoln in the second decade of the fifteenth century. I also work as a freelance tutor in History and as an independent tour guide. I was received into the Church in 2005 and am a Brother of the External Oratory of St Philip Neri at the Oxford Oratory.

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