Saint Thomas More

Birth of St Thomas More

Feb 7, 1478

My name is Thomas More I was born in milk street on the 7th February 1478

Thomas More's father and mother

Jan 1, 1479

1. My father works as a lawyer and his name is john More, my mother’s name is Agnes Graunger .

More's education

Jan 1, 1480

I was educated at St Anthony’s school in London. As a youth I served as a page in the household of Archbishop Morton.

More's studies

Jan 1, 1492

I have been recently continuing my study at Oxford University and studied law. I wrote comedies and I studied Greek and latin literature. One of my first works was an English Translation of a Latin biography of the Italian Humanist Pico Della Mimadola.

More's travels

Jan 1, 1494

Around 1494 I had come back to London to carry on studying law, I was then sent to Lincolns Inn in 1496 and became a barrister in 1501.

Thomas descicion

Jan 1, 1503

While I was at Lincoln’s Inn, I was strong-minded to become a monk and exposed myself to the discipline of the Carthusians, While living at a close by monastery and including myself in monastic life. The prayer, fasting and penance habits stayed with me for the existence of my life. The need for monasticism was officially overcome by my sense of necessity to serve my country in the playing field of politics.

Thomas marriage

Jan 1, 1505

I had come into parliament in 1504, and I married for my very first time in 1505.

Visit to England

Jan 1, 1508

During my first visit to England in 1499, Desiderius Erasmus found ourselves becoming the best of friends, and had started a lifelong friendship. During Erasmus’s second visit to Paris in 1506, we created latin translations of lucian’s works which we soon printed.

dedication

Jan 1, 1509

Erasmus then wrote ‘encomium moriae’ or ‘praise of folly’ which he dedicated to me in 1509 on his third visit

death of king Vii

Jan 1, 1509

One of the first things that I had done whilst being in parliaments, was to try and urge a decrease in a proposed appropriation for king henry vii. King henry’s way of getting his revenge on me, was by putting my father in prison and threatened that if a fine was not paid he would not release him. I myself had withdrawn from public life. In 1509, after the death of king henry vii, I had become lively again. The following year I became one of the two undersheriffs of London. I had then built

Death & Marriage

Jan 1, 1511

My first wife had died during the birth of our child in 1511. I was soon married again to a beautiful lady by the name dame Alice.

Henry vii

Mar 1, 1512

I had accompanied king henry viii in publishing his ‘defense of the seven sacraments’ which was a repudiation of Luther. I had also written an answer to Luther’s reply under pseudonym.

Made speaker of the house

Jan 1, 1523

In 1523, I was made speaker of the house of commons and chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster in 1525, in king henry’s favour. I had then used my advantages of having these tiles, and established the parliamentary privilege of free speech

no attendance

Jan 1, 1533

1533 It was the coronation of Anne Boleyn as the queen of England. I have officially refused to attend and honourably this was not an act of treason, I have written to Henry to acknowledge Anne’s Queen ship and expressing his desire for the Kings happiness and the queens health. My refusal was widely understood as a rejection against Anne, and henry took action against me.

Letter

Jan 1, 1534

1534, I had been blamed of conspiring with the “Holy Maid of Kent”, Elizabeth Barton, a nun who was predicted against the king’s annulment, But Thomas was able to write a letter to notify Barton not to interfere with state matters.

sent to tower

Apr 1, 1534

I was sent to the tower for rejecting to take the oath of the act of succession.

Parliament

Jan 1, 1535

I had acknowledged parliaments right to declare Anne Boleyn the legitmate queen of England. I was also asked to show before a commission and swear on my allegiance to the parliamentary Act of Succession. But I declined to take the oath of supremacy of the crown in the kingdom and the church of England.

Beheaded

Jul 6, 1535

I tried and convicted for treason and on the 6th of july I was unfortunately beheaded on tower hill.

achnowledged

Jan 1, 1536

I had acknowledged parliaments right to declare Anne Boleyn the legitmate queen of England. I was also asked to show before a commission and swear on my allegiance to the parliamentary Act of Succession. But I declined to take the oath of supremacy of the crown in the kingdom and the church of England.

Death

Jan 1, 1551

Alice middleton Thomas's wife passes away

Beatification

Dec 29, 1886

(Sir Thomas More) i was Beatified by Pope Leo III

Cannonisation

May 19, 1935

(sir Thomas Mor) I was cannonised by Pope Pius XI