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Church seeks to exhume head of Catholic martyr Sir Thomas More… 500 years after it was put on a pike
THE head of Sir Thomas More, the Catholic martyr and former Lord Chancellor to Henry VIII, could soon be dug up, five centuries after it was boiled and placed on a pike. St Dunstan’s Church in ...
Church bids to exhume head of Catholic martyr Sir Thomas More - five centuries after it was put on spike when he was executed
Sir Thomas More was beheaded at Tower Hill in 1535 after he refused to acknowledge the monarch as head of the church ...
Historic English church wants to exhume skull of Tudor saint decapitated by Henry VIII
An English church wants to exhume and preserve the remains of a martyr whose head was lopped off and speared on a London ...