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Portrait bust to the right inside oval of Cardinal John Fisher (1459/1469 - 1535). To browse the oval. Behind it a curtain. At the bottom of his name and a 4-line verse in French. Fischer was an English bishop, cardinal and martyr. In 1504 he was elected Chancellor of Cambridge University and became Bishop of Rochester. As the confessor of Catherine of Aragon, he protested vehemently against Henry's plans to divorce her. This got him into a conflict with the king and refused to accept the Act of Supremacy, designating the king as the head of the Anglican Church. He was subsequently imprisoned in the Tower of London. When he was appointed cardinal by Pope Paul III in 1535, this only fueled Henry VIII's anger, and a month later Fisher was beheaded on Tower Hill for treason. In 1935 he was canonized by Pope Pius XI. Copper engraving by Gerard Valck (1652-1726), after Adriaen van der Werff (1659-1722). Made in Amsterdam around 1700.
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