the mystical temple of god 652 Gregory,202 among the Greeks — Chrysostom203 with Basil;204 among the English — Thomas of Canterbury205 with More, the other Thomas;206 among the Poles (passing over other nations in silence) — the glorious Bishop Stanislaus,207 and others of great renown. While they bravely accused others of transgressions, or of the heretical emperor Constans, he was captured by trickery and taken to Constantinople and exiled to the Chersonese. There he died, exhausted by hardships on behalf of the Catholic faith”; (MR, September 16). “Captured by the emperor Constans in 653 and taken to Constantinople, he suffered much; finally he was taken to the Chersonese and died there in 656” (LH, April 13). Cf. Daniele Ireneo, Martin I, Pope, Saint, Martyr: BS VIII, 1293-1297. 202 This probably refers to St. Gregory VII, Pope and Confessor (d. 1085), who suffered much “in conflict with the empire.” “The champion and fiercest defender of Ecclesiastical freedom” (MR, May 25)he died on May 25, 1085, saying: “I have loved justice and hated injustice, therefore I am dying in exile;” cf. Miccoli, Giovanni, Gregory VII, Pope, Saint: BS VII, 337-354. Elsewhere one can read: “Attacked chiefly by King Henry IV, he died as an exile in Salerno in 1085” (LH, May 25). 203 St. John Chrysostom (d. 407), Bishop of Constantinople and Doctor of the Church, “who, cast into exile by a faction of enemies, was recalled thence by a decree of St. Innocent I, Pope. On the journey he suffered many evils from the soldiers who were guarding him, and died” (MR, September 14). Elsewhere one can read: “Overwhelmed by the hatred of the imperial court and by men who hated him, and of the envious people, he was twice compelled to go into exile; worn out by his afflictions, he died on September 14, 407” (LH, September 13). 204 St. Basil the Great 205 St. Thomas Becket, “clergyman of Canterbury,” Bishop and Martyr (d. 1170). “He strenuously defended the rights of the Church against King Henry II, as a result of which he was compelled to go into exile for six years in France. He returned to his native-land and still suffered much more, until he was killed by some of the king’s attendants in 1170” (LH, December 29). 206 St. Thomas More, Martyr (d. 1535), who “was beheaded on the orders of King Henry VIII for his defense of the Catholic faith and the primacy of blessed Peter” (MR, July 6). His memory is celebrated by the Church along with St. John Fisher, Bishop and Martyr, for “both were beheaded on the orders of King Henry VIII, whom they had opposed on the question of the dissolution of his marriage, in 1535” (LH, June 22). 207 St. Stanislaus, Bishop of Krakow and Martyr (d. 1097), who “was killed by King Boleslaus, whom he had reproached” (LH, April 11). Cf. Peter Naruszewicz, Stanisław, Bishop of Krakow, Saint, Martyr: BS XI, 1362-1366, where the explanation of the conflict between the bishop and king proposed by the historian Vincent Kadlubek (d. 1223) is supported. Kadlubek, “who, basing himself both on religious tradition and on the information gathered from the descendants of the first-hand witnesses ascribes the conflict between Stanislaus and King Boleslaus II to the injustices and acts of cruelty committed by the latter towards his subjects; the action of defending them against the insolence of the sovereign was sustained by
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