St Thomas More

June 22nd, 2007 by Dim Bulb

Today is the feast day of  Thomas More and John Fisher, saints and martyrs.  More is, without a doubt, one of my favorite saints.  Here are some online books by and about him.  There is also a link to the St John Fisher website.
Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation by St Thomas More  (written while he awaited his fate in the Tower of London.  This work deserves to be much better known.  The text offered here updated the archaic spelling and syntax of More’s day)

luminarium (a great site with many of St Thomas’ works available)
Sir Thomas More: (The Blessed Thomas More) by Henri Bremond.

Utopia by Sir Thomas More

The Life of Sir Thomas More by William Roper (Roper was More’s son-in-law)

The Life and Letters of St Thomas More by Agnes M. Stewart

The Wisdom and Wit of Thomas More (extracts from his writings)

Memoirs of Sir Thomas More by Arthur Cayley

St John Fisher website

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2 Responses

  1. Rob Says:
    June 23rd, 2007 at 12:21 am

    To this day I am mystified by how any Anglican can justify his church historically. I have heard the “return to Celtic Christianity” bit before, but have no idea how that justifies the latter reign of Henry VIII and the martyrdom of so many Catholics.

  2. Bear-i-tone Says:
    June 24th, 2007 at 7:45 pm

    Seems Fisher is getting a short shift here. He was a brave man and never tried to protect himself through silence.

    A piece of trivia: It was the testimony of Richard Rich that condemned both men. His testimony was quite close in both cases, as if he had identical “conversations” with both. Or if he didn’t have the imagination or brains to come up with two lies.

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