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i was born on this date in England to Sir John More a successful judge.
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i was educated at Saint Anthony's School in London. I then went on to study at oxford university writing comedies and studying Greek and Latin literature.
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Around 1494 I returned to London to study law and I studied for six years and became a barrister in 1501
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I had soonafter got caught inbetween a life of monastic calling or devotion and a life of service of the community. I was keen on becoming a monk, living at a nearby monastery and and being actively involved in the monastic life. Through prayer, fasting, and penance these habits had stayed with me for the rest of my life.
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I had entered Parliament in 1504 and i had also married in this year.
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one of my first acts in the field of politics had been to urge a decrease in appropriation on King Henry VII. As a form of revenge, the King had imprisoned my father and not released him until a payment was made and I had redrawn from a public life.
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in this year the king had died and i had become active once more. i was positioned as an "undersherrif". i was a patron to the poor.
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my first wife had died during childbirth, I was devastated. But i was then again married for a second time to Dame Alice.
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I had assisted Henry VIII in preparing his defence of the Seven Sacraments, in rebuke of Luther. i had written an answer using a false name. I was knighted speaker of the house of commoners.
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As a speaker I had helped start up a movement of the privelege of free speech.
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My work in the law courts was great, but my fall had come too sudden. I had resigned in 1532, stating my ill health.
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I had been sent to the Tower of London on April 17, and was found guilty of treason.
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I was beheaded alongside Bishop Fisher on July 6, 1535.
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My last words while on the platform were "The King's good servant, but God's First." I was beatified in 1886 and canonized by the Catholic Church as a saint by Pope Pius XI in 1935.
