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[[File:Hans Holbein, the Younger - Sir Thomas More - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|upright|alt=caption|''Sir Thomas More'', by Hans Holbein the Younger (1527)]] | [[File:Hans Holbein, the Younger - Sir Thomas More - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|upright|alt=caption|''Sir Thomas More'', by Hans Holbein the Younger (1527)]] | ||
(1478–1535), saint, statesman, scholar, and author, was an incarnation of [[El Morya]]. He served as Lord Chancellor of England under King Henry VIII | (1478–1535), saint, statesman, scholar, and author, was an incarnation of [[El Morya]], who had been [[Thomas Becket]] in a previous life. He served as Lord Chancellor of England under King Henry VIII, the reembodied Henry II. Once again they were given the choice to serve God’s will or man’s will. | ||
More discharged his duties wisely and well, but was beheaded because he failed to support the king in his departure from the laws of the Church regarding his marriage to Ann Boleyn. | |||
== Early life == | == Early life == | ||
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Finally, however, jealous enemies were encouraged by Henry to lie against him in the chancellor’s own court at Westminster. Charged and convicted of high treason, Thomas More was beheaded on Tower Hill in 1535. Kneeling before the executioner, he said, “I die the king’s loyal subject but God's first.” | Finally, however, jealous enemies were encouraged by Henry to lie against him in the chancellor’s own court at Westminster. Charged and convicted of high treason, Thomas More was beheaded on Tower Hill in 1535. Kneeling before the executioner, he said, “I die the king’s loyal subject but God's first.” | ||
== | == Legacy == | ||
Sir Thomas More was canonized | Sir Thomas More was beatified by the Roman Catholic Church in 1886 and canonized in 1935. | ||
More’s most famous work, '' | More’s most famous work, ''Utopia'', is an attempt to depict an ideal society, one in which men live in harmony under the holy will of the Most High God. | ||
The motion picture based on the play by Robert Bolt, ''A Man For All Seasons'', is the story of the life of Sir Thomas More. | |||
An ironic footnote to this episode is that in 1538 Henry VIII had the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket broken to pieces. After so many centuries he had never forgiven Becket. Henry ordered Becket’s name erased from the prayer books and prohibited any images of Becket in England. | |||
== Sources == | == Sources == | ||
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Elizabeth Clare Prophet, February 17, 1990. | |||
[[Category:Christian saints]] | [[Category:Christian saints]] | ||