Saint Thomas More Author:E.E. Reynolds "The King's good servant - but God's first." — With these imperishable words Thomas More mounted the scaffold and rendered to God the things that are God's. He had not courted martyrdom; had in fact taken every honorable means to avoid it. But More had become, with Cardinal Fisher, the symbol of Catholic England's resistance to Henry VIII. And s... more »o he had to go.
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The great merit of this biography by E.E. Reynolds is that it vividly portrays the whole More, his spirtual life as well as his court, family, social and intellectual activity. More brought his religion into the smallest detail of his life. He is the ideal saint for the modern layman, and in these pages we see why. He lived the Faith -- before dying for it.« less