Thomas More - traduzione in Inglese
![Statue of More at the [[Ateneo Law School]] chapel, [[Makati]], Philippines](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/APSjfb.JPG?width=200 "Statue of More at the [[Ateneo Law School]] chapel, [[Makati]], Philippines")
![Statue of Thomas More outside [[Chelsea Old Church]] in west London](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Chelsea Old Church 14.JPG?width=200 "Statue of Thomas More outside [[Chelsea Old Church]] in west London")
 (14785678593).jpg?width=200 "Beheading of Thomas More, 1870 illustration")
![Sir Thomas More is commemorated with a sculpture at the late-19th-century Sir Thomas More House, Carey Street, London, opposite the [[Royal Courts of Justice]].](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/HouseOfMore.JPG?width=200 "Sir Thomas More is commemorated with a sculpture at the late-19th-century Sir Thomas More House, Carey Street, London, opposite the [[Royal Courts of Justice]].")
![[[Rowland Lockey]] after [[Hans Holbein the Younger]], ''The Family of Sir Thomas More'', c. 1594](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/More famB 1280x-g0.jpg?width=200 "[[Rowland Lockey]] after [[Hans Holbein the Younger]], ''The Family of Sir Thomas More'', c. 1594")
![[[William Frederick Yeames]], ''The meeting of Sir Thomas More with his daughter after his sentence of death'', 1872](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nb pinacoteca yeames the meeting of sir thomas more with his daughter after his sentence of death.jpg?width=200 "[[William Frederick Yeames]], ''The meeting of Sir Thomas More with his daughter after his sentence of death'', 1872")
.jpg?width=200 "Sir Thomas More family's vault")
![Study for a portrait of Thomas More's family, c. 1527, by [[Hans Holbein the Younger]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Study for portrait of the More family, by Hans Holbein the Younger.jpg?width=200 "Study for a portrait of Thomas More's family, c. 1527, by [[Hans Holbein the Younger]]")
![House of the [[Mann family]] in Lübeck („''Buddenbrookhaus''“), where Thomas Mann grew up; now a family museum](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Buddenbrookhaus Luebeck (Germany) by night.jpg?width=200 "House of the [[Mann family]] in Lübeck („''Buddenbrookhaus''“), where Thomas Mann grew up; now a family museum")
![Nida]], Lithuania), now a memorial museum](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nida-Thomas-Mann-Haus01.jpg?width=200 "Nida]], Lithuania), now a memorial museum")
!["Modern Book Printing" from the [[Walk of Ideas]] in Berlin, Germany – built in 2006 to commemorate [[Johannes Gutenberg]]'s invention, c. 1445, of western movable printing type](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Printing4 Walk of Ideas Berlin.JPG?width=200 "\"Modern Book Printing\" from the [[Walk of Ideas]] in Berlin, Germany – built in 2006 to commemorate [[Johannes Gutenberg]]'s invention, c. 1445, of western movable printing type")
![Kilchberg]], Switzerland](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Thomas Mann Grave 2005-03-26.jpeg?width=200 "Kilchberg]], Switzerland")
![Thomas Harriot observing the Moon through his telescope from the roof of [[Syon House]].](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Harriot at Syon Park.JPG?width=200 "Thomas Harriot observing the Moon through his telescope from the roof of [[Syon House]].")
![Lord Egremont]] unveils a Plaque commemorating Thomas Harriot at [[Syon House]], West London (July 2009)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lord Egremont unveils the Plaque to Thomas Harriot (26th July 2009).jpg?width=200 "Lord Egremont]] unveils a Plaque commemorating Thomas Harriot at [[Syon House]], West London (July 2009)")
![Roanoke]] Indians](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/North carolina algonkin-rituale02.jpg?width=200 "Roanoke]] Indians")
.jpg?width=200 "The Thomas Harriot Plaque in the grounds of Syon House (W. London).")
Wikipedia
Sir Thomas More (7 February 1478 – 6 July 1535), venerated in the Catholic Church as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, judge, social philosopher, author, statesman, and noted Renaissance humanist. He also served Henry VIII as Lord High Chancellor of England from October 1529 to May 1532. He wrote Utopia, published in 1516, which describes the political system of an imaginary island state.
More opposed the Protestant Reformation, directing polemics against the theology of Martin Luther, Huldrych Zwingli, John Calvin and William Tyndale. More also opposed Henry VIII's separation from the Catholic Church, refusing to acknowledge Henry as supreme head of the Church of England and the annulment of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon. After refusing to take the Oath of Supremacy, he was convicted of treason and executed. On his execution, he was reported to have said: "I die the King's good servant, and God's first".
Pope Pius XI canonised More in 1935 as a martyr. Pope John Paul II in 2000 declared him the patron saint of statesmen and politicians.
