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Sir Thomas More PC (7 February 1478 – 6 July 1535), venerated in the Catholic Church as Saint Thomas More, [2] was an English lawyer, judge, [3] social philosopher, author, statesman, theologian, and noted Renaissance humanist. [4] He also served Henry VIII as Lord High Chancellor of England from October 1529 to May 1532. [5]
Margaret Roper (née More; 1505–1544) was an English writer and translator. Roper, the eldest daughter of Sir Thomas More, is considered to have been one of the most learned women in sixteenth-century England. [1] She is celebrated for her filial piety and scholarly accomplishments. [2]
Maria More (née Scrope) (1534–1607), Wife of Thomas More II. Sir Thomas More (1478–1535) wearing his official Tudor Collar of Esses. This part reproduces Holbein's famous portrait of More now at the Frick Collection. [11] Thomas More II (1531–1606), Grandson of Sir Thomas More. Margaret Roper (1505–1544), Daughter of Sir Thomas More.
Absolute Monarchs: A History of the Papacy. Random House NY. ISBN 978-1-4000-6715-2., popular history; O’Malley, S.J., John W. The Jesuits and the Popes: A Historical Sketch of Their Relationship (2016) Pennington, Arthur Robert (1882). Epochs of the Papacy: From Its Rise to the Death of Pope Pius IX. in 1878. G. Bell and Sons. Rendina ...
John Fisher was beatified by Pope Leo XIII with Thomas More and 52 other English Martyrs on 29 December 1886. In the Decree of Beatification, the greatest place was given to Fisher. He was canonised, with Thomas More, on 19 May 1935 by Pope Pius XI, after the presentation of a petition by English Catholics. [26]
Notably, the renowned theologian John Owen used More's work as a major point of contention in his own 1648 treatise, "The Death of Death in the Death of Christ." According to theologian J. I. Packer, Owen selected More's book "as the fullest statement of the case for universal redemption that had yet appeared in English," and utilized it as a 'chopping-block' to dismantle the arguments in ...
The painting depicts English humanist Thomas More while in prison at the Tower of London, with his wife and daughter. His daughter is at his feet begging him to accept the Act of Supremacy and thus avoiding the death penalty. Alice More, his wife, is standing, dressed in red, a colour that seems to preclude his husband's upcoming martyrdom.
Any act of allegiance to the latter was considered treasonous because the papacy claimed to have both spiritual and political power over its followers. It was under this act that saints Thomas More and John Fisher were executed and became martyrs for the Catholic faith. Queen Mary, Henry's daughter, was a devout Catholic. She tried to reverse ...