June 22, 201511 yr Today, June 22 under the new Roman calendar. Thomas More, the patron saint of lawyers. I have a small statue of More in my office. John Fisher was bishop of Rochester and a close advisor to the first wife of Henry VIII, Catherine of Aragon. He also represented her interests in the ecclesiastical court proceedings as to the legality of dissolving their marriage. Both he and John Fisher were executed for refusing to take an oath of allegiance which stated that King Henry VIII was the head of the English Church, a notion that even Luther surely found ridiculous. More, from the scaffold: "I die the king's good servant... but God's first." Fisher, speaking about other English bishops at the ecclesiastical court: "The fort is betrayed, even by those who should have defended it. Not that I condemn any other men's conscience. Their conscience may save them, and mine must save me."
June 22, 201511 yr Did you see "Wolf Hall" on PBS Masterpiece? Hilary Mantel ("Wolf Hall") and Brian Moynahan ("God's Bestseller" -- the William Tyndale bio) cast your patron saint in quite a different light than "Man for All Seasons."
June 23, 201511 yr Author Did you see "Wolf Hall" on PBS Masterpiece? Hilary Mantel ("Wolf Hall") and Brian Moynahan ("God's Bestseller" -- the William Tyndale bio) cast your patron saint in quite a different light than "Man for All Seasons." Pile of garbage. There's essentially zero reliable historical record that indicates the More described in "Wolf Hall". History has judged him for his actions as chancellor that betrayed some of his previous humanist convictions; he did not take well to his position of power. I doubt anyone could have judged More harder than he judged himself.
July 5, 201511 yr Serious question because I don't know and don't feel like looking for a credible source... Was Thomas More's portrayal in The Tudors accurate? Like his treatment towards Lutherans and such.
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