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St Thomas More was born in Milk street on the 7th of February 1478 in London
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More attended St. Anthony's School in Threadneedle street and at the time living with his father John Morton who was an Archbishop and Lord Chancelor to Henry VII.
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Around 1492, St Thomas More attended Oxfor university and studied history, mathamatics, law, Frence, Greek liturature, Latin liturature and also learnt how to play the flute and voline.
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St Thomas More became a law student in 1494 at the New Inn after attending Oxford University for 2 years.
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in 1496 he was admitted to Lincoln's Inn. From his outstanding abilities, he was elected by the Lincoln's Inn as the 'lecturer on law'.
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Around the 1500's, St Thomas More done everything in his power to stop the teachings of the pro-Lutherans religion in England as they went against all the teachings of the Catholic Church. He refused to accept and live the way they wanted, which was above the church of God and split away from the teachings of the Catholic church.
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When St Thomas was at the age of swenty-seven, he married his love Jane Colt who was aged seventeen at the time. She bore four children from him, three girls: Margaret, Elizabeth and Cecily, and a boy named John. Tragically, Jane died six years into their marriage.
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A few months after his wife Jane's death, he married another woman who had lost her husband through death, a widow named Alice Middleton. St Thomas was in need of someone to help him raise his four children and Alice helped him do just that.
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in 1515, St Thomas started writting his own worldwide book 'Utopia' discussing the difficulties of counselling princes. The word utopia means 'good place' aswell as 'no place'. He started writing 'Utopia' when he was assigned for a diplomatic mission in Antwerp. St Thomas More's book 'Utopia' was finally published in 1516.
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In 1529, Henry VIII made More Lord Chancellor. Lord Chancellor was the highest officer of the crown in the the house of the Lords.
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In the year 1532, St Thomas resigned as the Lord Chancellor. He done this because he did not agree to divorce Henry VIII from his wife Catherine and marry another woman named Anne Boleyn.
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on July 6 1535, St Thomas More died for high treason and was sent to Tower hill. He stayed there for 15 moths. More was sent to jail because he did not agree to the divorce of Henry VIII and Catherine, he was beheaded and known officially as 'the King's good servant, but God's first'.
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St Thomas More was beatified by Pope Leo XIII in 1886.
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St Thomas More was officially made a saint by Pope Pius XI in May 1935.
St Thomas Mores feast day is on June 22, this is when we remember all the great things he has done for our church and for our Lord.
