Note 68 — Book the Second (continued 3)
Reading edition
The Venerable Servant of God, King Ælfred the Great of England, has not yet been styled “The Blessed.” Sir Thomas More, Lord Chancellor of England under Henry VIII Tudor, only was admitted to the rank of “The Blessed” in 1886, by the Lord Leo P.P. XIII. He now publicly may be invoked by name, and his portraits decorated by a halo.