St Thomas Moore

By abraham.s
  • Feb 7, 1478

    early years

    early years
    i was born on this date in England to Sir John More a successful judge.
  • Feb 4, 1484

    education

    i was educated at Saint Anthony's School in London. I then went on to study at oxford university writing comedies and studying Greek and Latin literature.
  • Jan 1, 1494

    career

    career
    Around 1494 I returned to London to study law and I studied for six years and became a barrister in 1501
  • Jan 2, 1494

    monastic life

    I had soonafter got caught inbetween a life of monastic calling or devotion and a life of service of the community. I was keen on becoming a monk, living at a nearby monastery and and being actively involved in the monastic life. Through prayer, fasting, and penance these habits had stayed with me for the rest of my life.
  • Jan 1, 1504

    career and marriage

    I had entered Parliament in 1504 and i had also married in this year.
  • Jan 1, 1509

    politics

    one of my first acts in the field of politics had been to urge a decrease in appropriation on King Henry VII. As a form of revenge, the King had imprisoned my father and not released him until a payment was made and I had redrawn from a public life.
  • Feb 1, 1509

    More's return

    in this year the king had died and i had become active once more. i was positioned as an "undersherrif". i was a patron to the poor.
  • Jan 1, 1511

    love

    love
    my first wife had died during childbirth, I was devastated. But i was then again married for a second time to Dame Alice.
  • Jan 1, 1523

    More And Luther

    I had assisted Henry VIII in preparing his defence of the Seven Sacraments, in rebuke of Luther. i had written an answer using a false name. I was knighted speaker of the house of commoners.
  • Jan 1, 1525

    free speech

    As a speaker I had helped start up a movement of the privelege of free speech.
  • Jan 1, 1532

    resignation

    My work in the law courts was great, but my fall had come too sudden. I had resigned in 1532, stating my ill health.
  • Apr 17, 1535

    imprisonment

    I had been sent to the Tower of London on April 17, and was found guilty of treason.
  • Jul 6, 1535

    murder

    I was beheaded alongside Bishop Fisher on July 6, 1535.

  • Saint Thomas More

    Saint Thomas More
    My last words while on the platform were "The King's good servant, but God's First." I was beatified in 1886 and canonized by the Catholic Church as a saint by Pope Pius XI in 1935.