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In I929, nearly four hundred years after the deaths of Saints Thomas More and John Fisher, G.K. Chesterton observed in words equally applicable to Fisher, “Blessed Thomas More is more important at this moment than at any moment since his death, even perhaps the great moment of his dying; but he is so important as he will be in a hundred years.” Judge Robert J. Conrad Jr. anticipates Chesterton’s one-hundred-year mark in a collection of stories from the lives of More and Fisher demonstrating how their sanctity and integrity carried them and those who loved them through tumultuous and heart-wrenching times which, perhaps surprisingly, bear a striking resemblance to the present epoch. At first nothing could appear more different than the sixteenth century and the tech-centered modern era. But a closer examination presents a similar tale of political maneuvering and hostile hearings, legal corruption, viral pandemics, riots, suppression of speech, loss of religious liberty and a profound indifference for truth. The author effortlessly weaves together tales of both men and what made them who they were–family, faith, friendship, oaths, vocations, detachment, conscience– who strive for holiness down the same narrow path these two martyrs walked
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