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Thomas More (1478-1535) was a distinguished English lawyer and jurist who held administrative positions in the city of London and served in Parliament on three occasions.
His vast professional and political experience led Henry VIII to appoint him to his Royal Council.Private Council) and then, at the height of his political career, appointed him Chancellor of the Realm in 1529. Uncompromising in his moral principles and as a Catholic citizen, Thomas More was condemned to death by Henry VIII himself after refusing to swear to the Act of Succession, and later the Act of Supremacy, which enshrined the King as head of the English Catholic Church and consummated the break with the Pope.
He was beatified in 1886 by Pope Leo XIII. Forty-nine years later, Pius XI canonized him.