Topic and Bibliography

I have decided to do my research on St. Thomas More. As I said earlier while we were reading "Utopia", I have always been interested in Thomas More and his role in the history of the Catholic Church.
1. Stevens, Clifford. The One Year Book of Saints. Huntington, IN: Our Sunday Visitor Publishing, 1989.

This is one of the first biographies that I read about Thomas More and is a very brief summing up of his life.
His feast day, (the day he died), is June 22nd. The Catholic Church canonized him in 1935, 400 years after his death.
He was born in 1477 and as a young boy, was recognized as having a great intellect and being of fine character.

2. Bausch, William. The Pilgrim Church. Mystic, CT: Twenty-Third Publications, 1989.

In 1534, Henry VIII transferred all rights from the pope to himself and made Parliament pass the "Act of Supremacy", which declared him the supreme head of the Church in England. Thomas More refused to submit to this act and so was beheaded.

3. "Thomas More. "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_More

St. Thomas More shares his feast day, (June 22nd), with St. John Fisher, the Catholic Bishop who was beheaded the same day. Fisher was the only bishop to remain loyal to the Pope at that time. "More coined the word 'utopia' a name he gave to an ideal, imaginary island nation whose political system he described in a book published in 1516."
More was a good father, devoted to his children and felt that his three daughters should receive an education equal to his son; "declaring women were just as intelligent as men." This was not the typical way of thinking for the day.


4. Utopia (book). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia_(book)

This website has everything I need to know about "Utopia"; plot, discourse, and the meaning. As well as how it was received at the time it was written and how we can interpret the work today.

5. Ince, Elizabeth M. St. Thomas More of London. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2003.
The year was 1490, and Thomas More left his school, St. Anthony's at the age of 12 to study under the Archbishop of Canterbury. His father, Sir John More was a highly respected lawyer at the time. Thomas had a younger brother and 2 younger sisters, his mother died when he was younger. A woman named, Mother Maude took care of the More children and they dearly loved her.