Patron saints
Who Is the Patron Saint of Lawyers?
Saint Thomas More · Feast day June 22
The patron saint of lawyers is Saint Thomas More, whose feast day is June 22.
Who was Saint Thomas More?
Saint Thomas More was the brilliant Lord Chancellor of England and author of Utopia, who refused to betray his conscience and his faith even at the command of King Henry VIII, and was beheaded for it, saying he died the king's good servant but God's first.
Why the patron of lawyers?
As a lawyer and statesman who kept his integrity to the death, he is the patron of lawyers, judges, and statesmen.
In the Word
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?Micah 6:8 (KJV)
A note for all traditions: patron saints are honored in the Catholic and Orthodox churches as examples of faith and as friends who pray with us, never worshiped, for worship belongs to God alone. Many Protestant Christians honor the saints as examples without asking their intercession. Across all traditions, there is one Lord and one mediator between God and us, the man Christ Jesus, and every one of us, not only the saints, is called to holiness and to him.
All the saints point to Jesus, and so are you called
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