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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]
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 ...
Cecily More was the third child of Thomas More and his first wife, Jane Colte (1488-1511). Margaret (later Roper; 1505–1544) was the eldest; followed by Elizabeth (later Dauncey; 1506–1564), Cecily, and then John (1509-1547).
Christendom was originally a medieval concept which has steadily evolved since the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the gradual rise of the Papacy more in religio-temporal implications practically during and after the reign of Charlemagne; and the concept let itself be lulled in the minds of the staunch believers to the archetype of a holy ...
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]
The British Library still has King Henry's personal copy of Marko Marulić's Evangelistiarium, a book that was read in English and much admired by Thomas More. Extensive margin notes in the king's own hand prove that Marulić's book was a major source used by the king in the writing of Defence of the Seven Sacraments .
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 ...