Religion Assignment 1

Date and place of birth

Feb 7, 1478

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_MoreI Saint Thomas More was born On February 7 , 1478 London. I was well-known to everyone that I was an English lawyer.

Where and what he studied at university

Jan 1, 1479

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_MoreI was educated at Saint Anthony’s school in London. As a youth I was served as a page in the family unit of Archbishop Morton. As my life began I went on to study at Oxford under Thomas Linacre and William Grocyn. throughout this moment in time, I wrote comedies and studied Greek and Latin literature. One of my first works was an English conversion of a Latin life story of the Italian humanist Pico della Mirandola. It was in black and whit and printed by Wynkyn de Worde in 1510.

family life

Mar 22, 1505

family lifeI got married to an amazing lady called Jane Colt in 1505. Erasmus reported to me that my wife had taken an interest early on in giving her improved learning than she had earlier usual at home. My wife had became a personal tutor in the areas of melody and writing. I had had four children with Jane we decided to name then : Margaret, Elizabeth, Cicely, and John. My amazing wife(Jane) past away in 1511, I remarried almost straight away, choosing as his following wife a wealthy widow named Alice

Controversies he was involved in

Mar 22, 1535

http://www.thetudorswiki.com/page/Sir+Thomas+More+Controversies- held on to his religious convictions in the face of ruin and death
- the ideal of Catholicism of this period
-We may not look at our pleasures to go to heaven in featherbed
- More heard Luther's call to destroy the heart of Christendom, the Catholic Church, as a call to war

Death and What caused it

Jul 6, 1535

http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/morebio.htmAfter a year in prison in the Tower of London I stood trial at Westminster Hall. On July 6, 1535 I was executed on Tower Hill in London. i died the "King's good servant, but God's servant first". I died because I refused to sign a document the "Act of Succession" which in effect was a oath declaring the marriage between Henry VIII and Anne Boylen.

When he was canonized

May 19, 1935

http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=324
After my death I finally had a chance to fit in to heaven with God,I was Canonized, on the 19 of May 1935, Rome by Pope Pius XI, and finally became a saint. Now my feast day is held of the 22 of June which I would like everyone to remember and say a special pray on that day.