Who is Stephen Gardiner

Stephen Gardiner (27 July 1483 – 12 November 1555) was an English Catholic bishop and politician during the English Reformation period who served as Lord Chancellor during the reign of Queen Mary I and King Philip.Early lifeGardiner was born in Bury St Edmunds, but the date of his birth is uncertain. His father could have been a John Gardiner, but also could have been Wyllyam Gardiner, a substantial cloth merchant of the town where he was born, who took care to give him a good education. His mother was said to be Helen Tudor, an illegitimate daughter of Jasper Tudor, 1st Duke of Bedford, but American research from 2011 suggests that this lady was the mother of a different cleric, Thomas Gardiner.In 1511, Gardiner, aged 28, met Erasmus in Paris. He had probably already begun his studies a...
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Pjforto: now does stephen holyday still feel confident he can gamble city services and expect the province/feds to pick up where we left off? bailão, same thing on the dvp/gardiner? unserious solutions to our very real problems.
Asifintoronto: how does she keep repeating this lie without shame? everyone in toronto needs to call this out. this is less than a plan. you're more likely to find a magic lamp with a wish-granting genie under the gardiner than doug ford is to upload that money pit to the province.
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Sonnet Xvi. To Kosciusko
 by John Keats

Good Kosciusko, thy great name alone
Is a full harvest whence to reap high feeling;
It comes upon us like the glorious pealing
Of the wide spheres -- an everlasting tone.
And now it tells me, that in worlds unknown,
The names of heroes, burst from clouds concealing,
And changed to harmonies, for ever stealing
Through cloudless blue, and round each silver throne.
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