St. John Fisher, Bishop and Martyr – Catholic Art – Archival Quality Mexican Grandmother becoming one of the great

becoming one of the great Saints of the Middle Ages

Surviving witnesses said she helped other prisoners with great compassion

This image is of Christ with a golden crown of thorns

She is often shown with the Eucharist because of a story that says Attila the Hun was coming with his horde to take over the convent when Clare ran and got the monstrance and warded him off with Jesus Himself

She was only 24 when she died

St. John Fisher, Bishop and Martyr – Catholic Art – Archival Quality Mexican Grandmother becoming one of the greatThis is what St. John Fisher actually looked like. The drawing is by Hans Holbein the Younter, the premier portrait artist of Europe in the 16th Century. All the paintings you see of Fisher are based on this sketch, and as well on the bust sculpture done by Pietro Torrigiano. Both were done by men who were looking at Fisher. The two, sketch and bust, look more like each other than the numerous painted copies that followed. We wanted to present you