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Sir Thomas More

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In 1516 he wrote his famous book «Utopia». He attracted the attention of King Henry VIII who appointed him to several important posts and finally «Lord Chancellor», chancellor, in 1529. At the height of his career Thomas resigned, in 1532, when King Henry persisted in disowning his wife to marry , for which the king was preparing to break the unity of the Church and form the Anglican church under his authority.

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Moro within his silence chose and valued each word to make one of the most passionate and at the same time serene protests in favor of the freedom of the human spirit, illuminated by the truth. The Christian can live without many things, but he cannot live without freedom.
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His passion for truth must necessarily go hand in hand with his passion for freedom.
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Moro entered the Tower for following the truth of his conscience. He did not adhere to the oath because it was repugnant to his Christian conscience. Doing so would have led him to lose his authentic freedom, with a capital letter, attached to the truth, and consequently to lose himself to adhere to authentic freedom. Without that original freedom of the Spirit, the other freedoms can be chains, although they produce admiration and seem very beautiful. This is what Moro has in mind when speaking in some letters of «respect for his soul
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Speaking of individual conscience and inalienable freedom does not mean in any way that it is allowed to make any decision capriciously, but rather, the ability and obligation to seek the truth in any matter, according to the means available. And that is why he went to torture without making concessions, when it would have been enough for him to accept an equivocal commitment, which everyone expected of him, to find himself once again at leisure with dignity[8], or in lies with a supposed dignity
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Moro did not fight obstinately in his personal or subjective conception, but in defense and love of the truth. He did not aspire to «get his way» but «God’s.» More died for a truth that in his time had been endangered. More was a first-class intellectual, a leading figure in European Renaissance humanism. Thomas More studied the matter objectively and conscientiously made sure of the truth. His conscience was well formed, his faith was reasonable, and his content had known long hours of reflection and study.
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He did not die for defending a simple opinion of his head nor for a whim of his conscience, but for safeguarding conscience in the revealed objective truth. He opposed a law dictated at whim by interests of the moment. Her head was cut off because she was what his enemies could not conquer in him [10], and they needed a traitor to infamously accuse him with perjury. It would seem that the truth won over the lie, but has it been like that? Veritas magna et prevail. The truth is great and prevails (Saint Augustine)[11]. His testimony still continues to this day and commits us.
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The weight of his character, his virile energy, his honesty, his legal training and his fifteen months in prison is overwhelming with regard to his reasons in defense of the truth, of what things really are, of the good of justice. He had maintained with his intelligence and humanistic prestige, with the ink of his pen, the faith of always many years before fighting the last battle with the blood of his head [12].
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… In a boat before being arrested, talking to his son-in-law William Ropper about the possibility of losing his freedom, More told him: «The battle is won.» The battle is won, there are many interpretations of this expression: Moro’s battle with himself, the battle against temptation, the battle against fears, the battle of good against evil, the battle of truth against lies, the battle of death against life, the battle that Christ has already won for us.
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