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| The ruins of Glastonbury Abbey |
In some places today is the feast of Blessed Richard Whiting and companions, martyred under Henry VIII of England.
Blessed Richard was abbot of Glastonbury Abbey, and one of the few churchman to stand up against Henry VIII's destruction of the English Church.
Blessed Richard Whiting was appointed abbot in 1525, and the first ten years of Whiting's rule were prosperous and peaceful. He was a sober and caring spiritual leader and a good manager of the abbey's day-to-day life. Contemporary accounts show that Whiting was held in very high esteem.
Attempts to find excuses to close the abbey failed, and the abbot stood in the way of its dissolution. He was hung, drawn and quartered without proper trial along with two of his monks in 1539.
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