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Bl. Thomas Abel
(Also ABLE, or ABELL.)
Priest and martyr, born about 1497; died 30 July, 1540. He was chaplain to
Queen Catharine, and defender of the validity of her marriage with Henry VIII,
for which reason he was eventually put to death. He was a graduate of Oxford,
and appears to have taught the queen modern languages and music. After a journey
to Spain in her behalf, he received the parochial benefice of Bradwell in Sussex.
He soon published (May, 1532?) in defence of the queen's marriage a work
entitled: Invicta Veritas, an answer to the determination of the most famous
Universities, that by no manner of law it may be lawful for King Henry to be
divorced from the Queen's grace, his lawful and very wife
. For this he was
thrown (1532) into Beauchamp Tower, and after a year's liberation again
imprisoned, in December, 1533, on the charges of disseminating the prophecies of
the Maid of Kent, encouraging the queen obstinately to persist in her wilful
opinion against the same divorce and separation
, and maintaining her right to
the title of queen. He was kept in close confinement until his execution at
Tyburn, two days after the execution of Cromwell himself. There is extant a very
pious Latin letter written by him to a fellow-martyr, and another to Cromwell,
begging for some slight mitigation of his close prison
- i.e. license to go
to church and say Mass here within the Tower and for to lie in some house upon
the Green
. It is signed by your daily bedeman, Thomas Abell, priest
. His act
of attainder states that he and three others have most traitorously adhered
themselves unto the bishop of Rome, being a common enemy unto your Majesty and
this your Realm, refusing your Highness to be our and their Supreme Head of this
your Realm of England
. There is in Beauchamp Tower a rebus of the Martyr,
probably executed by himself; the figure of a bell carved on the wall, the
letter A in front and the word Thomas
above. He is one of the fifty-four
English martyrs beatified by Leo XIII 29 Dec., 1886.
POLLEN, Lives of the English Martyrs, I (London, 1904), 462-83.
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