Thomas Abel

Thomas Abel, and Able (* 1497, † June 30, 1540 in Smithfield / London) was an English clergyman.

As chaplain to Catherine of Aragon, wife of King Henry VIII, he sat down in his sermons and writings against the dissolution of her marriage a.

Following the publication of his book Invicta Veritas, he was in 1532 arrested and charged with high treason. After a short time he was released, but already in 1533 arrested again. When he finally refused to recognize the Act of Supremacy, he was convicted and executed in June 1540, two days after Thomas Cromwell.

He was instituted by Pope Leo XIII. as a member of a group of 54 English martyrs beatified on 29 December 1886.