"The first great Englishman whom we feel that we know, the most saintly of humanists, the most human of saints, the universal man of our cool northern renaissance."
- Hugh Trevor-Roper
Ss. John Fisher and Thomas More, Martyrs
St. Thomas More
St. John Fisher
St. Thomas More was born in 1478 in London and as a young boy was placed in the service of the Archbishop of Canterbury. At the age of fourteen, he went to study at Oxford, but after two years his father had him move to study law in London. He was attracted by the new humanism. His religious faith led him to practice aestheticism and to study with two prestigious communities: the Observant Franciscans and the London Charterhouse. He married, fathered children, and was elected to Parliament under King Henry VII. Because of his upright moral character, prestigious learning and sharp mind; he was made Lord Chancellor shortly before Henry VIII decided to take control of the Church of England. St. Thomas More resigned over this and consequently suffered poverty, imprisonment in the Tower of London, and beheading. Thomas More, along with 53 others, including St. John Fisher, Cambridge scholar and Bishop of Rochester, were beatified by Pope Leo XIII in 1886. More and Fisher were canonized in 1935.
Keep us, O Lord, constant in faith and zealous in witness, that, like thy servants John Fisher and Thomas More, we may live in thy fear, die in thy favor, and rest in thy peace; for the sake of Jesus Christ thy Son our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
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