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Saint Thomas More was born in Milk Street, Cripplegate London on the 7th of February, in 1478. He was the eldest of his parents John More and Agnes more’s children.
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Archbishop John Morton nominated more to become a student at Oxford University, then after two years begins studying law at New Inn, London.
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Enters lincoln’s Inn.St Thomas , he then began to socialise with William Grocyn and Thomas Linacre who taught him Greek.
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Thomas More became a Barrister after the completion of his law studies. It was clear that Thomas was bright at law, but it was not where his destiny layed. He was drawn to the idea of the religious life, spending majority of his time in prayer.
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St Thomas more married his wife Jone Colt who was the daughter of an Essex landowner; together they had their first child and named her Margaret who is shown in the picture. Then their other children Elizabeth, Cicely and John were born and were raised in an atmosphere where honesty was the policy due to their father’s values of honest work. More's daughters days were spent studying which their father made sure of as he believed even women should have an education, which most other men of t
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His first wife Jane Colt died, so he then married a widow of a London merchant, Alice Middleton.Alice Middleton had a daughter who Thomas adopted.
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More created his best known work Utopia in the year 1515. Utopia was a novel of a perfect society which would have men and women educated equally, no private property an ideal political legal system and a perfect society. This novel was written in Latin. Utopia was translated into english by Ralp Robinson in 1551.
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The protestant reformation began when Martin Luther stated that the church must be fairer, less greedy and that it needed changing as it was corrupt mainly due to the selling of forgiveness of sins. St Thomas stood by the church, supporting it, as he believed the reformation was a complete heresy. He did what he could in his power against the reformation by spying on possible Protestants, stoping Martin’s books from being bought, transported into England or sold.
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Henry VIII apointed Thomas to succession of high post and missions, and finally made him Lord Chancellor in 1529.
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Henry VIII like St Thomas More, for he then appointed him to succession of high post and missions, then finally made him Lord Chancellor in 1529. After 4 years St thomas resigned.
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His father John died.
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St Thomas more tried to resign as disagreement was starting to oppose him, although he was denied resignation! He attempted to resign again in 1532 stating that he was ill, this time he was allowed to reign.
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the Succession Act required More to take an oath that repudiateed the Pope, declaring the marriage between Henry and Catherine of Aragon invalid and acknowledged that the children of Henry and Anne Boleyn would be the legal heirs to the throne. More refused to take the oath and to attend the coronation of Anne Boleyn as the Queen of England.
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Sir Thomas More was beheaded as an order from King Henry VIII as he refused to take the Oath of Supremacy, which would make King Henry VIII the Supreme Head of the Church there fore convicted of attemtpting to over rule the government. Saint Thomas’ body was buried the Church of Saint Peter.
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Thomas More was Beatified by Pope Leo XIII in 1886.
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St Thomas and St John Fisher were canonized on the 19th of May 1935 by Pope Pius XI
