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Born: January 01 1478

Died: 2626 05 15351535

Sir Thomas More , venerated by Catholics as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman, and noted Renaissance humanist. He was a councillor to Henry VIII and also served as Lord High Chancellor of England from October 1529 to 16 May 1532.

More opposed the Protestant Reformation, in particular the theology of Martin Luther and William Tyndale. He also wrote Utopia, published in 1516, about the political system of an imaginary ideal island nation. More opposed the King's separation from the Catholic Church, refusing to acknowledge Henry as Supreme Head of the Church of England and the annulment of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon. After refusing to take the Oath of Supremacy, he was convicted of treason and beheaded.

Pope Pius XI canonised More in 1935 as a martyr. Pope John Paul II in 2000 declared him the "heavenly Patron of Statesmen and Politicians." Since 1980, the Church of England has remembered More liturgically as a Reformation martyr. The Soviet Union honoured him for the Communistic attitude toward property rights expressed in Utopia.

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Utopia

Weird Tales: The Magazine That Never Dies

Three Early Modern Utopias: Utopia / New Atlantis / The Isle of Pines

Utopia with Erasmus's The Sileni of Alcibiades

The History of King Richard III

The Sadness of Christ and Final Prayers and Benedictions

A Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation

The Last Letters of Thomas More

The Four Last Things: The Supplication of Souls; A Dialogue on Conscience

Utopías del Renacimiento

Dialogue Concerning Heresies

A Thomas More Sourcebook

The Sadness of Christ

Mahatma Gandhi: Biografia Dramatizada: [Mahatma Gandhi: Dramatized Biography]

Political Science. Classics Collection (Illustrated): The Art of War, Tao Te Ching, The Republic, Meditations, The Prince, Utopia, Common Sense, Utilitarianism, ... Manifesto, The State and Revolution

The Yale Edition of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More: Volume 9, The Apology

Utopía / La nueva Atlántida

Ideal Commonwealths

Den fantastiska romanen 1: Klassisk utopi och rymdfärd från Lukianos till Edward Bellamy

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