Gardiner, German, Blessed
Gardiner, German, Blessed
Last martyr under Henry VIII , died Tyburn, England , 1544 . His courage was aroused by the example of the martyrs , especially Blessed Thomas More, and he suffered the death of a traitor. Gardiner’s indictment states that he was executed for endeavoring “to deprive the King of his dignity, title, and name of Supreme Head of the English and Irish Church.”