Bizzare

[JohnC6]

I found this article quite bizzare. It's about Thomas More..Sir Thomas More to be exact(1478-1535)He served as Lord Chancellor to Henry V111...1529-1532. He was a lawyer, philosopher, Renaissance Humanist, theologian et al. He was a Catholic and venerated by the church and thus became Saint Thomas...400 years later in 1935. He wrote the novel "Utopia" A fictitious island state. He was opposed to the the Protestant Reformation but his undoing was being against Henry V111's separation from the Catholic Church and refusing to acknowledge Henry as head of the Church of England and the annulment of Henry's marriage to Catherine of Aragon. He also refused to take the Oath of Supremacy and ,consequently, convicted of treason, on what he stated was false evidence, and duly executed..beheaded, in 1532.

His body was buried in the Chapel of St Peter and Vincula at the tower of London minus his head which was parboiled and put on a spike and placed on London Bridge. A month later,his daughter who was rowed up the Thames, retrieved her father's head in order to stop it being thrown into the Thames. To preserve it, she kept it in a jar of spices. where it remained until she died in 1544. So, twelve years. She was buried in Chelsea but in 1577 her body was moved to the family grave at St Dunstan's church, Canterbury (an Anglican church) and her father's head, in a lead casing, went with her..Not long after the burial a new vault was built and Thomas More's head was placed there, behind bars, in a niche in the wall. The vault was last opened in 1997 and a video shows that the casing was partially opened .What's left are some cranium fragments, a piece of lower jaw and dust. St Dunstan's gets a letter or two every year asking for a small piece of the skull to be posted somewhere in the world. What's left of the skull is now going to be exhumed and conserved. Modern day methods, I presume., then it will be left to dry out and stabilise .A sum of £50,000 is being raised from More's supporters around the world. The Catholic church is extremely wealthy so it could fund the project. Church of England officials want to ensure that any shrine would be appropriate in a Church of England as it doesn't normally venerate Saints and relics.

C'est la vie or rather, in this instance..... C'est la mort .

 

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[Steep]

I found this article quite bizzare. It's about Thomas More..Sir Thomas More to be exact(1478-1535)He served as Lord Chancellor to Henry V111...1529-1532. He was a lawyer, philosopher, Renaissance Humanist, theologian et al. He was a Catholic and venerated by the church and thus became Saint Thomas...400 years later in 1935. He wrote the novel "Utopia" A fictitious island state. He was opposed to the the Protestant Reformation but his undoing was being against Henry V111's separation from the Catholic Church and refusing to acknowledge Henry as head of the Church of England and the annulment of Henry's marriage to Catherine of Aragon. He also refused to take the Oath of Supremacy and ,consequently, convicted of treason, on what he stated was false evidence, and duly executed..beheaded, in 1532.

His body was buried in the Chapel of St Peter and Vincula at the tower of London minus his head which was parboiled and put on a spike and placed on London Bridge. A month later,his daughter who was rowed up the Thames, retrieved her father's head in order to stop it being thrown into the Thames. To preserve it, she kept it in a jar of spices. where it remained until she died in 1544. So, twelve years. She was buried in Chelsea but in 1577 her body was moved to the family grave at St Dunstan's church, Canterbury (an Anglican church) and her father's head, in a lead casing, went with her..Not long after the burial a new vault was built and Thomas More's head was placed there, behind bars, in a niche in the wall. The vault was last opened in 1997 and a video shows that the casing was partially opened .What's left are some cranium fragments, a piece of lower jaw and dust. St Dunstan's gets a letter or two every year asking for a small piece of the skull to be posted somewhere in the world. What's left of the skull is now going to be exhumed and conserved. Modern day methods, I presume., then it will be left to dry out and stabilise .A sum of £50,000 is being raised from More's supporters around the world. The Catholic church is extremely wealthy so it could fund the project. Church of England officials want to ensure that any shrine would be appropriate in a Church of England as it doesn't normally venerate Saints and relics.

C'est la vie or rather, in this instance..... C'est la mort .

I read about him, his main failing I think was his integrity in a world where principles got you dead.

 

[JonathanRyan]

What's left of the skull is now going to be exhumed and conserved. Modern day methods, I presume., then it will be left to dry out and stabilise .A sum of £50,000 is being raised from More's supporters around the world. The Catholic church is extremely wealthy so it could fund the project. Church of England officials want to ensure that any shrine would be appropriate in a Church of England as it doesn't normally venerate Saints and relics.

Ooo good chance to mention my home town. I believe the most recent translation of a saint in an Anglican church was the one held in Folkestone for St Eanswythe. They are very rare. They had to get advice on the ceremony from the only person who had done it in living memory (IIRC somewhere in Wales).

So yeah, Folkestone will be ready to advise on the correct protocol for moving his head.

ETA - oh, it's St Dunstan's in Canterbury - lovely little church. I bet they had people watching their neighbours in Folkestone for St Eanswythe.

Kent: Bones of 7th Century saint finally laid to rest in Folkestone

The remains of St Eanswythe will be laid to rest for the last time now they have been carbon dated.

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