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Germain P. Marc'hadour
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Professor of Philology, Catholic University of the West, Angers, France. Director, Moreana Quarterly. Author of L'Univers de Thomas More and other works on Thomas More.

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Portrait of Sir Thomas More by Hans Holbein the Younger, showing More in dark robes and a black hat, wearing a gold chain of office, seated against a green and yellow draped background.
Thomas More ; canonized May 19, 1935; feast day June 22) was an English humanist and statesman and chancellor of England (1529–32) who was beheaded for refusing to accept King Henry VIII as head of the Church of England. He is recognized as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church and is venerated as a…
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