Saturday, March 3, 2012

"The King's good servant, but God's First."


In 1534, Sir Thomas More refused to swear to the Act of
Succession
and the Oath of Supremacy, and was committed to the Tower of London on April
17. More was found guilty of treason and was beheaded alongside
Bishop Fisheron July 6, 1535. More'sfinal words on the scaffold were: "The King's good servant, but God's First."More was beatified in 1886 and canonized by the Catholic Church as a saint by Pope Pius XI in 1935.