Founder: Atty. Rodolfo C. Rapista
May 28, 2008: the school came into its legal existence when its Certificate of Incorporation was duly approved and issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
June 2009: the College of Law, College of Elementary Education, and College of Business Administration opened with 61 students in law, 12 students in Elementary Education, and 9 students in the Business Administration at Valle Building, Osmeña St., Tagum City, the temporary campus site.
June 2011: opened it’s permanent campus site at Doctolero Ave., Magugpo East, Tagum City; and offered additional courses – BS Criminology, Bachelor in Secondary Education, and Bachelor in Public Administration (first in Tagum City).
The school celebrates its Foundation Day every 22nd of June, the feast day of St. Thomas More.
A home for quality education where knowledge and character go together.
We, the members of the St. Thomas More School of Law and Business Community commit ourselves:
- To develop and form integrated individuals following the values of St. Thomas More.
- To provide transformative, liberating and relevant academic programs responsive to the growing and changing needs of the local, national and global communities.
THE STMIC SEAL
OUR PATRON SAINT
Our Patron Saint – St. Thomas More
Born in London in 1476. After a thorough grounding in religion and the classics, he entered Oxford University to study Law and landed a legal career in the parliament after leaving the University. In 1505, he married his beloved Jane Colt, who bore him four children and when she died at a young age, he married a widow, Alice Middleton.
By 1516, he wrote his world-famous book Utopia, which attracted King Henry VIII’s attention, who appointed him to a succession of high posts, and missions, and made him Lord Chancellor in 1529. In 1532, he resigned at the height of his career and reputation when Henry VIII persisted in holding his own opinion regarding marriage and the supremacy of the Pope.
The rest of his life was spent writing mostly in defense of the Church, thus he was tried and convicted of treason. He told the court he could not go against his conscience. He was beheaded on July 6, 1535. His feast day is June 22nd. On the scaffold, he told the crowd of spectators that he was dying as “the King’s good servant but God’s first.” Became the patron saint of lawyers and statesmen.
