St. Thomas More (1478–1535) served as Lord Chancellor of England under King Henry VIII. A renowned scholar and author of ...

In 1935, Pope Pius XI canonized Sir Thomas More and Cardinal John Fisher as saints of the Catholic Church. English King Henry VIII ordered the two men executed in 1535 for refusing to accept him ...

It was retrieved by More’s daughter, Margaret Roper, after his execution at the Tower of London, and placed in the Roper ...

In 1935, Pope Pius XI canonized Sir Thomas More and Cardinal John Fisher as saints of the Catholic Church. English King Henry VIII ordered the two men executed in 1535 for refusing to accept him ...

The Church of England is weighing plans to exhume and enshrine the head of St. Thomas More , the patron saint of statesmen and politicians, in time for the 500th anniv ...

St. John Fisher was martyred by King Henry VIII June 22, 1535; St. Thomas More a few weeks later on July 6. They both refused to swear Henry’s oath that he, not the pope, was head of the Church ...