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Learn about the process of canonization in Making Saints by Kenneth Woodward, the religion editor of Newsweek. Click on the image above to order.
Read a collection of essays offering new insights into 17 saints in A Tremor of Bliss: Contemporary Writers on the Saints, edited by Paul Elie. Click on the image above to order.
Heroic virtue is not the exclusive domain of the past. Red about modern-day witnesses to the faith in Catholic Martyrs of the Twentieth Century by Robert Royal. Click on the image above to order.
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Thomas More June 22 Thomas More was beheaded by Henry VIII on July 6, 1535. He was lord chancellor of England and a famous humanist and author. A close friend of Erasmus of Rotterdam, he wrote the book Utopia. He refused to support King Henry's divorce of Queen Catherine and the Act of Supremacy, which named Henry Head of the Church in England. He is the patron saint of lawyers. Learn more about St. Thomas More
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