The MERCILESS Execution Of Bishop John Fisher - Henry VIII's Religious Enemy

[@timothydavy968]

As someone completely lacking courage I am allways deeply impressed by persons of extreme bravery

[@maryfreebed9886]

To admit that takes a little courage.

[@erikriza7165]

i agree. it takes a lot of courage for you to say that you lack courage.

[@ollieox9181]

King Henry VIII - the most prolific serial killer in history.

[@rubysoh3732]

He should also be called 'Bloody Henry'. He was really blood thirsty. He was crazy!

[@indiakhetri]

More violent than the current leaders ? I don’t think so …

[@rubysoh3732]

@@indiakhetri I Never said he was more violent than current leaders. Please check the words. Nowhere did I say he was more violent than the current leaders. I wrote 15 words. None of the the words say that he was more violent than the current leaders. Please check the words again. You may have read the wrong review.

[@indiakhetri]

@@rubysoh3732 My mistake...no offense intended

[@rubysoh3732]

@@indiakhetri CT, I wasn't offended. I was more like...huh? This person probably misread something somewhere. So I felt that I had to make things clear. Other than that, I agree that there were worse people than Henry... in history...past... and even..present.🙂

[@anoopsahal1202]

Young Henry had a head injury during jousting , his personality changed, becoming dis-inhibited, possibly frontal lobe disinhibition , I see it all the time in dementia patients

[@wormhole331]

Actually a good decision on John's part. He was late in life with failing health so probably didn't have a whole lot of time left anyway especially back then. had an opportunity to become a martyr, the highest honer for him I'm sure. And just go out into history like a boss.

[@merlynscave]

Henry the eighth was a despotic murderer.

[@DJJinxC2006]

He sounds like quite an honourable man for his time, just another in a long line of victims of Henry.

[@allies7184]

Henry VIII, the most disgusting king in English history.

[@imgoingtocountdownfromthir4580]

I attended Catholic schools from infants to secondary school, in secondary school were all allocated a house, named after an English martyr, Fisher, Barlow, Clitherow & Moore, we all studied each of the 4 martyrs in RE, we even attended Margaret Clitherow's House on a day trip to York...I was in Fisher House, even though I know his story, it great that this story is being told.

[@makeupboss3568]

These were seriously dreadful times in England’s history .

[@jamesong.a.7695]

If you weren’t a part of the nobility or clergy, directly in contact with the king and court, you had nothing to worry about…

[@shizzlenizzle98]

@@jamesong.a.7695 Oh believe me, you did.

[@stevefox8605]

Excellent, thanks for your hard work 👍🏻👍🏻

[@Finthefish-hr8ky]

I love this channel. You make history so immediate and interesting. Thanks mate.

[@mcaddicts]

Atleast he got off easier than his cook.

[@50PullUps]

The modern world should draw more parallels between Henry VIII and the likes of megamurderers like Stalin, Robespierre, Pol Pot. He really was just that bad.

[@jamesong.a.7695]

What a ridiculous and illogical comment… the other men you mentioned murdered millions of innocent people indiscriminately, not to mention the number sent to gulags, etc… while around 50k people are thought to have been executed during Henry VIII entire 36 year reign. That’s 50k total, not 50k innocent people. As long as you were a person outside of the nobility or clergy you were perfectly safe. Not to mention, the majority of those he executed were given chances to repent from whatever they were being accused of and save themselves from being executed, just as in this case. Instead they chose to become “martyrs”, which is another huge difference between Henry VIII and the other three men mentioned. That’s just a few reasons why this comment is silly af…

[@martha-anastasia]

Putin

[@jamesong.a.7695]

@@martha-anastasia Bush/Cheney!

[@prime-rib]

Interesting choice as Robespierre was Jesuit trained. So was Robert Mugabe and many other, "megamurderers," but none worse than the Popes themselves.

[@50PullUps]

@Just Another Brick In The Wall Fair enough. Stalin doesn't belong in that list. Swap him out with Sulla from the Roman republic then. The point is that Henry VIII fits well among the historical leaders who delighted in robbing and killing their own citizens.

[@Vic35102]

Thank you once again for your superb work

[@kennedyreid2504]

Bottom Line - Henry was an evil dictator!

[@augiehuerta5843]

Rest in peace, your Excellency. May we, too, prove worthy of our faith.

[@kchastain3]

It’s not really my place to say it as an American, but England should just dump the monarchy for good. Just to be rid of it completely. What an awful and disgusting legacy. Just the public display of gore because of one man’s spiteful nature and unlimited power that he didn’t earn. This whole story here made my stomach churn.

[@louisemerriman1079]

Wonderful video

[@TheFortress]

Many thanks

[@Seashed]

Henry the Ate was a lunatic.

[@alleynealisleem9777]

👑🤴😤😖😫🧐🥴😵🥵🥶🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@garybobst9107]

Being a homicidal sociopath is a basic requirement to be a medieval ruler.

[@estebancorral5151]

That is true. However, Henry VIII was in the the Renaissance.

[@TankerBricks]

Excellent job as always! Any chance of the controversial execution of Marshal Ney?

[@claudermiller]

How can anyone belong to a church founded by Henry XIII?

[@marshalljohnson8117]

You can't because there was never a Henry XIII

[@bigdambluesband6295]

Better work on your study of Roman numerals.

[@prime-rib]

How can anyone belong to a church that believes church tradition trumps the Word of God? If you claim you don't, then your church needs to rewrite every doctrine it subscribes to as none of them are biblical. Whether talking about purgatory or how and who you baptize, none of it is biblical.

[@MrAEMiller]

To an extent I agree but Anglicanism is more complex theologically than that. At the time the Catholic Church was quite corrupt. It was Cromwell who really imported protestantism and saw a way to sell it to the King. Henry's motivations were cynical but this is not universally true of all his fellow travellers. Before universal suffrage the church was an arbiter between the aristocracy and the peasants and that it wasn't fully under national control was a controversial political issue with many Kings opting in and out of the Papcy to some degree or other before Henry finally broke with Rome.

[@rickdrysdale892]

Henry VIII

[@florjanbrudar692]

Underfeeding to get him to give in was already brutal

[@condorboss3339]

Before we get all teary-eyed about Fisher, remember he had protestants burned at the stake when he was an ecclesiastical judge. He was just as foul as Henry VIII

[@prime-rib]

I LOVE people who know history!

[@busyb1513]

Before we listen to the person who said John Fisher burned protestants at the stake, maybe he needs to really know his history. John Fisher lived under Henry viii who had been a Catholic king for years before he decided to form his own Church of England because the pope would not bow to his demands to annul his marriage to Catherine of Aragon, hence there was no need to burn protestants as Henry had been a Catholic for most of John Fishers life and did not tolerate Protestantism in England . Protestant’s only came to be persecuted under Mary Tudors reign , Henry’s daughter as Catholics were persecuted later under Henry Viii and his daughter Elizabeth . In fact between Henry and Elizabeth I, they slaughtered more Catholics than Bloody Mary ever did protestants, yet she got the name “ bloody” . Funny that ! John Fisher was not a judge but a chancellor of Cambridge university . He only ever interrogated Thomas Wilton who subsequently thereafter was executed for heresy, hardly totally to blame for that, as heresy was a crime punishable by death at the time. . So when someone says I LOVE when someone knows their history, maybe they ought to find out if that person really does

[@busyb1513]

What a joke ! You are in the wrong era of history mate, know your history, because you don’t

[@busyb1513]

@@prime-rib he actually dosent

[@condorboss3339]

@@busyb1513 I suggest you look up Thomas Hitton

[@Phill75051]

The more I hear about Henry VIII the more I don't like him. I bet his mother never spanked him as a child.

[@MrBrucecollings]

Actually John fisher was shown mercy by king Henry 8th as his original death sentence was to be hung drawn and quartered .. Beheading at the time was seen as a quicker more mercyful death

[@uncatila]

John the Baptist and John Fisher pray for us.

[@arnokouwenhoven9015]

Yes.

[@TheLochs]

Its funny how he stood up for the Catholic Church which was worse than Henry the VIII. Why die for such a corrupt horrible organization.

[@prime-rib]

Merciless? This was nothing compared to the barbarities perpetrated by the Catholic church against conscience-following, Protestants, all in the name of it's "infallible" Popes.

[@davidhayes4814]

Given the relatively small population of England at this time, the toll of 70K executions would be well over 1/2 million pro rata today…. Ouch…

[@kentd4762]

Bishop Fisher, a great man of integrity.

[@frankmaeder4358]

I thought Fisher actually WAS made a cardinal by Paul III...

[@WhoDaresWins-B20]

Blessed Martyrs of England Saint John Fisher; Saint Thomas More, Saint Margaret Ward, Saint June Lyne and others murdered by a satanic monarch whose Tudor line was cursed. Today; we have Pope Francis surrounded by his blasphemous sycophants who are doing to the One True Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church what Henry and his followers did. The Blessed Martyrs of England can truly say: YOU MAY TAKE AND DEFILE MY BODY BUT MY SOUL BELONGS TO OIUR LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST. I PITY THE SOUL OF HENRY VIII AND IS ILK.

[@JamesAllmond]

I still find it odd that even the current British Monarch wears the title Defender of the Faith, that was given to Henry VIII by Pope Leo X...WTF?

[@Sebastian1018]

About two weeks ago I finished reading a book called 'The burning time'. It is an astonishing account of religious persecution over a period of 20 years in England. The 'Christian' faith which preached love, forgiveness, and understanding was shown to be an absolute lie.... buy the book and read it. You will maybe understand why I detest everything about what is the biggest con trick in human history.

[@RobertEWaters]

Or, perhaps, exactly what it predicted of human nature.

[@loisreese2692]

@Thomas Howard True Christianity or spirituality (not religiousness) *is* kindness, love, forgiveness, and more. Even if there is no God, it's still a really good way to live. Take care, my good sir.

[@Sebastian1018]

@@loisreese2692 it is still a con...

[@tyriqcollier5509]

You lack understanding

[@honeybeastie1]

No.....all those executions were an example of man's intolerance and inhumanity to fellow man. ANY system you introduce man into becomes infected by that evil, narcissic tendency. God had nothing to do with those atrocities.

[@staceyleeellis9160]

History time guy narrating

[@larry1824]

Made him watch soup Nazi episode 600000000 times

[@johnfitzgerald2339]

Well...the execution wasn't really brutal or "merciless"; the draw-and-quartering part was commuted. The tortuous imprisonment was pretty merciless though.

[@peteraune3693]

Are you really an Englishman or has the excess of prepositions comletely overtaken the British Isles?

[@archiesinclair6252]

Please don't learn English grammar on this channel.

[@KenDelloSandro7565]

SANCTE IOANNIS FISHER, ORA PRO NOBIS. AMEN.

[@johnbayley4773]

Old hall Sandbach cheshire

[@paulspice4717]

Brutal merciless same ole same ole. ALL executions are brutal and merciless. Get some new titles Pleeeeeeze

[@1619Mercy]

There are none.

[@flyingphobiahelp]

Well said.

[@77goanywhere]

Just another example of the church of Christ totally dishonouring the One she claimed as Lord. Organised religion is an abomination that was formed and used as a political tool.

[@1619Mercy]

He can not be compared to John the Baptist.

[@sthomas2592]

RC church should have let Henry divorce and there would be no church of england.

[@davids9549]

Nice! Christian acts carried out by Christians in the name of Christianity in the heart of Christendom. Not a particularly compelling advertisement for the religion of peace and love is it?

[@MLennholm]

Islam is the religion that makes claim to be the religion of peace, while love is for christianity. In both cases, it's just as accurate and true as the "Democratic People's Republic of Korea" being a democratic republic...

[@jamesnoel5173]

Your understanding of what Christianity is is what is flawed

[@davids9549]

@@jamesnoel5173 I think I understand what Christianity thinks it SHOULD be, it's just that for most of its history it hasn't had a very good track record of translating that into its behaviour. But keep trying!

[@RobertEWaters]

But perhaps the patience of those who were sincere in its profession when being killed by those who did so hypocritically is a pretty darned compelling advertisement for it.

[@loisreese2692]

@David S They were doing it wrong.

[@neronevetti4540]

The kings and queens that were chosen to rule over the house of Israel as God promised king David through his holy prophets from Ireland to Scotland and England the last overturn planted in the high and eminent place in Israel England. This promise was unconditional if they did good such as queen Victoria saying I will be good. The lord gives them to flourish and ect. If they did bad like Henry and Mary his daughter they are punished. The last Elizabeth and her mother did exceedingly good and they were blessed by God.

[@Damon-p9u]

What a lot of tripe!!!

[@johnbecaus8324]

Yes this was a brutal and vicious murder but you can blame the Bishop himself because he forgot that Jesus told all his followers not to mess in in the affairs of Rome, in other words Christians should not get involved it politics. This involve the in politics by Christians is normal against Jesus’s instructions

[@robfriar6570]

St. John Fischer was defending the Church and speaking out against the immorality of the King. The Church has the right and duty to speak out against the evil and immorality of political decisions. Silence in the face of such evils, such as abortion, the Final Solution, or any crime against Christ and His people allows an evil to continue.

[@johnbecaus8324]

@@robfriar6570 Hi Bob the only reason religions exist is to sell people, with poor knowledge and who are not able to understand what they read, something that is invisible and totally unprovable to give omega males power. The very largest building today are owned and or occupied by the powerful, individuals or corporations to show their power and influence. In the past who owned the largest buildings in villages and towns to show their power and influence? Religions of course. The Catholic Church has influence on about 33% of the world’s population and is vastly wealthy but is vastly corrupt both financially and morally the Anglian Church is not much better. As I have said, in the Bible Jesus instructed his followers not to get involved with politics and only on God, who is invisible and under no circumstances can be proven to exist. Faith is belief without proof, just like conspiracy theories.

[@TrailBoss1860]

Too much bs information cut to the chase

[@duncancurtis1758]

Hee hee stake needed for next bonce of a traitor 😜 fling said turnippe into ye Thames with a sploosh...