Parliamentary saint unveiled

George Cardinal Pell

Function: Archbishop of Sydney, Australia

Title: Cardinal Priest of St. Mary Dominic Mazzarello

Birthdate: Jun 08, 1941	Country: Australia

Elevated: Oct 21, 2003	More information: www.catholic-hierarchy.org

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Parliamentary saint unveiled
Jun 14, 2006
Debates in the New South Wales Parliament are notoriously brutal but MPs can take some comfort from the fact that unlike their patron saint, they won't be beheaded for their principles.

(The Daily Telegraph, June 08, 2006) Sydney Catholic Archbishop Cardinal George Pell today unveiled a statue of St Thomas More, the patron saint of lawyers, statesmen and politicians, in the Speaker's Garden at Parliament House in Sydney.

The bronze statue was a gift to the Parliament from the Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney.

St Thomas, who was born in 1477 or 1478, was executed in 1535 for high treason after refusing to publicly accept King Henry VIII was head of the Church of England.

He served as Speaker of the House of Commons and Lord Chancellor.

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