Glorious Saint Thomas More. Saint Thomas was tried July 1 1535 and Executed + July 6 1535. Beatified 1885 Canonized 1935More
Glorious Saint Thomas More.
Saint Thomas was tried July 1 1535
and Executed + July 6 1535.
Beatified 1885
Canonized 1935
Saint Thomas was tried July 1 1535
and Executed + July 6 1535.
Beatified 1885
Canonized 1935
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“More is a man of an angel’s wit and singular learning. He is a man of many excellent virtues; I know not his fellow. For where is the man (in whom is so many goodly virtues) of that gentleness, lowliness, and affability, and as time requires, a man of marvelous mirth and pastimes and sometime of steadfast gravity — a man for all seasons.”
--Robert Whittington, Vulgaria, 1520
“…it would be …More
“More is a man of an angel’s wit and singular learning. He is a man of many excellent virtues; I know not his fellow. For where is the man (in whom is so many goodly virtues) of that gentleness, lowliness, and affability, and as time requires, a man of marvelous mirth and pastimes and sometime of steadfast gravity — a man for all seasons.”
--Robert Whittington, Vulgaria, 1520
“…it would be hard to find anyone who was more truly a man for all seasons and all men…”
(…omnibus omnium horarum homo…: Here Erasmus alludes to
1 Corinthians 9:22, “I become all things to all men, that I might save all.”) --Erasmus, Letter to Guillaume Budé, 1521.