God's Good Servant and the King's: The Hero Story of Thomas More

Thomas More (1478-1535) was born one year after William Caxton used the movable type printing press to print the first book ever printed on English soil-an edition of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. It was an auspicious beginning for a man who would someday become one of the leading Renaissance scholars of his day. More was a man of letters, learning, and law, but he would end his life much more than a scholar and lawyer...

Thomas More's early years were spent during the conclusion of the War of the Roses (1455-1485). He was five years old when Richard III ascended the throne, and seven years old when Henry Tudor defeated Richard at the Battle of Bosworth Field and was crowned King Henry VII. Upon Henry's death in 1509, his second son, Henry VIII (r. 1509-1547), began his turbulent and transformative thirty-eight-year reign. More would one day serve as Henry VIII's lord chancellor and eventually be martyred at the insistence of England's intolerant king.

Follow Thomas More on his life journey and experience the early Reformation period and the events that led to his glorious death.

Yet his story lives on...

Thomas More. Servant, martyr, hero, saint.

Take your first steps with him today!

A Hero Is Chosen Series

Hero Stories of the Saints

Book One: Reflections of an Uncommon Monk: Toward a Theology of Hero-Sainthood

Book Two: Mission of the Maiden: The Hero Story of Joan of Arc

Book Three: God's Good Servant and the King's: The Hero Story of Thomas More

• Part One: Historical Context: Fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Renaissance Europe; Reformation period; English and Church history

• Part Two: God's Good Servant and the King's: Thomas More's hero-saint story focusing on his public dissent from King Henry VIII (hero-event) until his execution (hero-moment)

Book Four: King of Kings: The Hero Story of Jesus of Nazareth

Book Five: Friar, Priest, and Martyr: The Hero Story of Maximilian Kolbe

Book Six: A Vocation Story Never Told: A Hero Story of Future Saints

Book Seven: Hero Bible Verses: Meditations of a Saint

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