St. Thomas More

Saint Thomas More was born in 1477 and was educated at Oxford. He married and had one son and three daughters. While Chancellor in the king’s Court, he wrote works on politics, culture, and in defense of the Catholic faith. At one time one of King Henry VIII’s most trusted ministers, More was beheaded on July 6, 1535 by order of the King whom he and St. John Fisher had resisted in the matter of the King’s divorce from Catherine of Arragon and remarriage to Ann Bolyn. His memorial is celebrated on June 22 together with that of St. John Fisher who was beheaded on this date. In the great millennial Jubilee of 2000, More was proclaimed Patron Saint of Statesmen and Politicians by Pope St. John Paul II. Biography by Dr. Italy