ABEL, THOMAS

Abell (d. 1540), Eng. priest; supporter of Katharine of Aragon; denied royal supremacy and was executed. scholar and theologian; in early manhoo d became canon of Notre Dame, Paris, in which city he achieved great succe as teacher and lecturer. He was made tutor to Héloise, niece of Canon, Fulbert and an affection sprang up between them, They were afterwards separated, and an act of violence was committed upon A. at the instance of Fulbert. Subsequently A. became a monk, and Héloise took the veil. In his later years A. resumed teaching at the Paraclete hermitage, where he was buried, and Héloise was afterwards laid in the same tomb. The remains of the lovers were, fn 1817, removed to Pére Lachaise, Paris.