|Saint Thomas More| Portrait by Hans Holbein the Younger (1527).
|Born||February 7, 1478, London, England| |Died||6 July 1535
(aged 57), London, England| |Venerated in||Roman Catholic
Church, Anglican Communion| |Beatified||1886, near London Hill
by Pope Leo XIII| |Canonized||1935, Rome by Pope Pius XI|
|Feast||June 22 (Roman Catholic), July 6 (Anglican & Traditional
Roman Catholics)| |Attributes||Martyr; Axe; dressed in a
Chancellor's robe with a neck chain of office|
|Patronage||Adopted children, Arlington, Virginia, civil
servants, court clerks, difficult marriages, large families,
Pensacola-Tallahassee, Florida, lawyers, politicians and
statesmen, stepparents, widowers, Ateneo de Manila Law School,
University of Santo Tomas Faculty of Arts and Letters| Saint
Thomas More (7 February 1478 – 6 July 1535), also Sir Thomas
More, was an English lawyer, author, and statesman who in his
lifetime earned a reputation as a leading humanist scholar, and
occupied many public offices, including Lord Chancellor (1529–15