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More, Thomas
- An English statesman and scholar of the sixteenth century; the author of Utopia, and a saint of the Roman Catholic Church . More was beheaded because he refused to recognize Henry VIII as head of the Roman Catholic Church in England .
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More is admired today for having put his principles above personal ambition.
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As Alexandr Solzhenitsyn once observed, Thomas More, 16th-century author of Utopia, invented the idea of the forced-labor camp.
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So extraordinary were her miracles, and her predictions so striking, that even Sir Thomas More believed in her.
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Sir Thomas More was enabled to judge from passing events of what was to happen in after years.
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Sir Thomas More was united to a woman of the harshest temper and the most sordid manners.
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Here Sir Thomas More worshipped in the days of his power, and here, in the chapel that he built, is his monument.
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Thomas More translated his life and letters, and reckoned him a saint.
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