St. Thomas More (SAU 026) Tie

St. Thomas More (1470-1535) was truly an English Renaissance man: He was a lawyer, statesman, social philosopher, author, family man, and Christian humanist. He also became a martyr under Henry VIII because he opposed the King's divorce of Catherine of Aragon and his taking the title "Supreme Head of the Church of England". + Today, St. Thomas More is the patron saint of legal professionals, civil servants, and religious freedom. + Image Credit (SAU 026): Antique image of St. Thomas More (after Hans Holbein the Younger) from a late 19th-century devotional print in chromolithography probably by Baron Jean-Baptiste Bethune (1821-1894) and published by the Socièté de St. Augustin, Bruges, Belgium, from the designer’s private collection of religious ephemera. + Feast: June 22