Directory of Saint Thomas More Resources

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

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• Bold Type: Peter Ackroyd

  http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/521/the-life-of-thomas-more-by-peter-ackroyd/
  Excerpt from Ackroyd's biography of Sir Thomas More, and an interview of the author.

• Catholic Encyclopedia: St. Thomas More

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14689c.htm
  Biographical article on the Lord Chancellor of England, and martyr. Beheaded 1535.

• Catholic Online: St. Thomas More

  http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=324
  Biographical portrait of the martyr.

• CatholicSaints.Info: Thomas More

  http://catholicsaints.info/saint-thomas-more/
  Illustrated profile, with links. Also a reading from a letter that More wrote to his beloved daughter Margaret while he was in prison.

• Mark P. Shea: St. Thomas More

  http://www.mark-shea.com/more.html
  More is proof that even lawyers can get to heaven.

• Muriel Mirak-Wiessbach: St. Thomas More

  http://www.schillerinstitute.org/conf-iclc/2001/Oberw-/conf_aug01_mlm.html
  Speech presented to a Schiller Institute conference. Delves into More's idea of law and his ideal of the king.

• Our Patron Saint

  http://www.stmdarienct.org/patron.htm
  Profile of St. Thomas More.

• Proclaiming Saint Thomas More Patron of Statesmen and Politicians

  http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/motu_proprio/documents/hf_jp-ii_motu-proprio_20001031_thomas-more_en.html
  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.

• Saint Thomas More, Martyr, Chancellor of England

  http://www.ewtn.com/library/MARY/THOMASMO.htm
  From the book "Lives of Saints," published by John J. Crawley.

• St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church: Thomas More

  http://www.scborromeo.org/saints/more.htm
  Portrait, short biography.

• St. Thomas More Catholic Parish: Our Patron, St. Thomas More

  http://www.stmore.com/patron.htm
  Biographical sketch of their patron saint.

• The History Guide: Sir Thomas More, 1478-1535

  http://www.historyguide.org/earlymod/stmore.html
  Portrait and short biography of the English statesman. Also Erasmus's description.

• The Life of Sir Thomas More

  http://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/16Croper-more.asp
  By William Roper, More's son-in-law. 117K.

• The Life of Sir Thomas More (1478-1535)

  http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/morebio.htm
  Hypertext biography of the Renaissance English author and Catholic martyr. At Luminarium.

• The Story of Thomas More

  http://www.cin.org/farmor.html
  Complete online text of the book by John Farrow. With portrait.

• The Trial of Sir Thomas More, 1535

  http://www.duhaime.org/LawMuseum/LawArticle-112/1535--The-Trial-of-Sir-Thomas-More.aspx
  An online account of the trial and execution, from the World Wide Legal Information Association.

• University of Surrey Catholic Society: Our Patron, St. Thomas More

  http://portal.surrey.ac.uk/portal/page?_pageid=704,269285&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL
  Portrait, biographical profile, "Prayer of St. Thomas More," links.

• What politicians can learn from Thomas More

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/946718.stm
  Lessons from the life of a sixteenth-century lawyer.

• Who2: Sir Thomas More

  http://www.who2.com/bio/sir-thomas-more
  Biographical profile.

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