Earlier this month, the parochial church council that governs St. Dunstan’s announced a proposal to “exhume and conserve what remains” of More’s skull ahead of the 500th anniversary of his ...

An English church wants to exhume and preserve the remains of a martyr whose head was lopped off and speared on a London Bridge spike. St. Dunstan’s Church in Canterbury is asking parochial l… ...

The skull of St. Thomas More, a prominent Catholic saint beheaded in 1535, may soon be exhumed from its centuries-old resting place at St. Dunstan's Church in Canterbury, England.

An English Church Wants to Exhume the Skull of Thomas More, Tudor Statesman Beheaded by Henry VIII Nearly 500 Years Ago The king accused More of treason and ordered his execution in 1535. Now, St ...