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Church seeks to exhume head of Catholic martyr Sir Thomas More… 500 years after it was put on a pike
THE head of Sir Thomas More, the Catholic martyr and former Lord Chancellor to Henry VIII, could soon be dug up, five ...
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Fox’s ‘Utopia’ gets advice from the author of the other ‘Utopia ...
Fox’s ‘Utopia’ gets advice from the author of the other ‘Utopia,’ Sir Thomas More. September 15, 2014 More than 10 years ago. ... we turned to the 16th-century philosopher Sir Thomas ...
Permission is being sought to exhume Thomas More’s head from vault at St Dunstan’s in Canterbury
Permission is being sought to exhume Thomas More’s head from a Kent vault, 500 years after it was put on a pike on London Bridge.
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Shakespeare's Plea for an End to the Persecution of Refugees
The words, spoken by the character of Sir Thomas More, a famous advisor to Henry VIII, form part of Shakespeare's only surviving handwritten script, The Book of Sir Thomas More.
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On This Day: Thomas More, John Fisher canonized - UPI
On May 19, 1935, Pope Pius XI canonized Sir Thomas More and Cardinal John Fisher as saints of the Catholic Church. ... In 1935, renowned British soldier and author T.E. Lawrence, ...