An English church desires to exhume and protect the stays of a martyr whose head was lopped off and speared on a London Bridge spike.

St. Dunstan’s Church in Canterbury is asking parochial leaders to open its tomb of Thomas More forward of the five hundredth anniversary of his 1535 murder, the Times of London reported.

More, a Tudor lawyer to the English monarchy, was decapitated on Tower Hill on the orders of King Henry VIII after refusing to acknowledge the axe-happy monarch as the top of the Church of England throughout the English Reformation’s separation from the Vatican.

St. Thomas More was executed in 1535 after he refused to acknowledge King Henry VII as head of the church. Getty Images

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