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Saint Thomas More

Information on Sir Thomas More, lawyer, author, and saint.

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• - More is proof that even lawyers can get to heaven.
  
• - Biographical portrait of the martyr.
  
• - By William Roper, More's son-in-law. 117K.
  
• - Portrait, biographical profile, "Prayer of St. Thomas More," links.
  
• - Excerpt from Ackroyd's biography of Sir Thomas More, and an interview of the author.
  
• - Unit from a course at Austin College. Lecture notes.
  
• - Topics include educational societies and research functions related to More, and biographical material.
  
• - Apostolic letter, issued motu proprio, by Pope John Paul II. Includes biographical information on the saint, lauded even in his own lifetime as a model of moral integrity and devotion to justice.
  
• - Biographical sketch, with excerpts from More's writings.
  
• - Complete online text of the book by John Farrow. With portrait.
  
• - Page for children tells about his life, and what he was like.
  
• - Speech presented to a Schiller Institute conference. Delves into More's idea of law and his ideal of the king.
  
• - Part of a course at Oregon State University on the history of Western philosophy. Portrait of More, brief biography, timeline, links, bibliography.
  
• - Timeline, links.
  
• - Biographical article on the Lord Chancellor of England, and martyr. Beheaded 1535.
  
• - Brief biography.
  
• - Illustrated profile, with links. Also a reading from a letter that More wrote to his beloved daughter Margaret while he was in prison.
  
• - Short biographical sketch.
  
• - Essay on why this sixteenth-century statesman is a saint for our time.
  
• - Two portraits, curriculum vitae, links, and a biographical essay on perhaps the most famous victim of Henry VIII's perverse judicial policies.
  
• - Portrait, short biography.
  
• - Biographical sketch of their patron saint.
  
• - Profile of the quintessential "Renaissance man" and English humanist.
  
• - Biographical profile.
  
• - Profile of St. Thomas More.
  
• - From the book "Lives of Saints," published by John J. Crawley.
  
• - An academic paper, by H. Solomon Poretsky.
  
• - Ph.D. dissertation by Romuald Ian Lakowski, analyzing the structures of four works by Sir Thomas More: The History of Richard III, the 'Dialogue of Counsel' in Book I of Utopia, The Dialogue Concerning Heresies, and The Dialogue of Comfort in Tribulation.
  
• - Essay on Thomas More as a model Christian father.
  
• - Portrait, short biography, photograph of a page from More's Dialogue on the Veneration and Worship of Images.
  
• - Ladyhawk would like everyone to know that Sir Thomas More was sainted not only for his death, but for his life.
  
• - From the Richard III Society, American Branch.
  
• - Hypertext biography of the Renaissance English author and Catholic martyr. At Luminarium.
  
• - Biographical essay on the lawyer, writer, statesman, Chancellor of England.
  
• - Portrait and short biography of the English statesman. Also, Erasmus's description of More.
  
• - Short biography.
  
• - Winner of an essay contest for teens. John Griffin tells why, if he could travel through time to meet someone, it would be More.
  
• - Short biographical article.
  
• - Bullet list. Suited to teenagers.
  
• - Keynote speech by biographer Richard Marius from 1995 conference.
  
• - Short, pious hagiography of the Third Order Franciscan.
  
• - Links to texts, courses, biographies, organizations, and images.
  
• - An online account of the trial and execution, from the World Wide Legal Information Association.
  
• - Lessons from the life of a sixteenth-century lawyer.
  
• - A review of Peter Ackroyd's book "The Life of Thomas More."
  
  

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