The other guys
Paulinus was born in Bordeaux to a rich and powerful family and had a successful political career, culminating in the governorship of a province in Nola, Italy. He married a woman who shared with him her ideal of living a strictly evangelical life. After the death of his son, they gave away all their property and began to live a monastic life (a hundred years before St. Benedict). At the insistence of the people where he was in Spain, he was ordained a priest. He moved back to Nola, where he now lived the monastic life and set up a hospice for the sick. Again at the request of the people, he was called to a new role and became bishop and served for more than twenty years until his death in 431.
John Fisher was a great academic -- Chancellor of the University of Cambridge -- and pastor -- becoming bishop of Rochester. He was the only bishop to stand against the King's takeover of the English Church, yet never condemning those who acquiesced. He was named a Cardinal and the next month was executed, on the same day as Thomas More: June 22, 1535.
John Fisher was a great academic -- Chancellor of the University of Cambridge -- and pastor -- becoming bishop of Rochester. He was the only bishop to stand against the King's takeover of the English Church, yet never condemning those who acquiesced. He was named a Cardinal and the next month was executed, on the same day as Thomas More: June 22, 1535.
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