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An Englishman’s Grave
When Henry VIII began to persecute the Catholics in England, many people took refuge on the European continent. Among them was a man named Robert Peckham, who went to Rome and died there shortly thereafter. He was buried in the cemetery of the church of St. Gregory, where his headstone bears this inscription: “Here lies Robert Peckham, an English Catholic, who, after England’s breech with the Holy See, left his country because he could not live there without the Faith, and who, having come to Rome, died there because he could not live away from his native land.”
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