Thomas More, A Portrait of Courage A Portrait Of Courage
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Product Details Author:  Format: ISBN: H x W x D: Manufacturer: Date: Pages: Gerard B. Wegemer Soft Cover 1-889334-12-X 8 1/2"  (21.5 cm) x 5 1/2"  (13.9 cm) x 0 3/4"  (1.90 cm) Scepter Publishers 1995 307

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ONE OF HISTORY'S M0ST ADMIRED FIGURES, Thomas More stands as a model of courage, integrity, fortitude, and other virtues. As a highly successful lawyer, diplomat, and father of a large family, he sacrificed everything that the world holds dear for what his conscience dictated was a principle that could not be sacrificed.

The Catholic Church recognized his heroic virtue and holiness by making him a saint along with Bishop John Fisher on the 400th anniversary of their martyrdoms in 1935. This new biography details the hidden spiritual life of More. What motivated his spiritual struggle? How did his writings open a window into his inner life?

- "A very solid, well researched, and at times moving biography of this beloved saint." 
- BOWIE KUHN, Crisis Magazine

The author, Gerard B. Wegemer, is an associate professor of English at the University of Dallas. He wrote an introduction and edited a printing of More's last book, The Sadness of Christ (Scepter, 1993). He has authored Thomas More on Statesmanship ( Catholic University of America, 1996), and wrote an introduction for a modem English version of More's A Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation (Scepter, 1998).

St. Thomas More

Feast Day: Roman Rite Calendar - 06/22 Tridentine Calendar - 06/22 Patron Of: Adopted Children, Civil Servants, Court Workers, Difficult Marriages, Stepparents, Widowers, Lawyers, Large Families, Politicians, Statesmen Profile     Studied at London and Oxford. Page for the Archbishop of Canterbury. Lawyer. Twice married, father of one son and three daughters, and a devoted family man. Writer. Friend of King Henry VIII. Lord Chancellor of England, a position of power second only to the king. Opposed the king on the matter of royal divorce, and refused to swear the Oath of Supremacy which declared the king the head of the Church in England. Resigned the Chancellorship, and was imprisoned in the Tower of London. Martyred for his refusal to bend his religious beliefs to the king's political needs.   Born     1478 at London, England Died     beheaded in 1535; head kept in the Roper Vault, Saint Dunstan's church, Canterbury, England; body at Saint Peter ad Vincula, Tower of London, England Canonized     1935 by Pope Pius XI All information used with permission of the Patron Saint Index.

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