Today’s saint picture: Saint John Fisher

Thanks to a chance review of a book by Graham Greene, Louise Imogen Guiney’s Recusant Poets, I ended up doing a deep dive into the reformation and Catholic counter-reformation in England (I have a fairly deep collection of books about 16th–17th century English Catholicism and the poets of that era) so seeing that today’s saints included two martyrs from the persecution of Catholics by Henry VIII, and I decided to go with John Fisher, the lesser-known of the two whose feast is celebrated today (the other is Saint Thomas More). It’s interesting to note that Fisher is the only cardinal to be martyred since the end of the persecutions under the Roman empire.

This is another mock wood-cut, I focused more on the face in this picture, and I’m still not really happy with the results as they are, but I think I’ll need to spend more time on the pictures to get something I’m really happy with.