Mine is Thomas Becket, the martyred archbishop of Canterbury, whose feast day is today. Catholic saints have done well vis-à-vis English kings, particularly on stage and in the movies.

More has been written about Thomas Becket, the archbishop hacked to death in Canterbury Cathedral exactly 850 years ago, than any other non-royal English person of the Middle Ages. And yet it ...

Thomas Becket was Archbishop of Canterbury, the most important bishop in England. In 1170, he was brutally murdered in Canterbury Cathedral. Historians have long debated whether his murder was on ...

Today is the Feast Day of Thomas Becket: Martyr and Saint. The ascetic Archbishop was martyred on this day, December 29, in the year of our Lord 1170, while presiding over daily vespers inside his ...

The pollution also sheds light on a notorious murder of the medieval era; the killing of Thomas Becket. European team to drill for 'oldest ice' Becket bone back in UK after 800 years Climate ...

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login Our major sources for the life and death of Thomas Becket are rigorously examined in this major new book. In the wake of his murder in ...

Thomas Becket Catholic School held a competition, inviting form groups to create festive hampers for delivery to Cathedral Food Store. The initiative aimed to spread some much-needed Christmas cheer ...

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login Thomas Becket - the archbishop of Canterbury cut down in his own cathedral just after Christmas 1170 - stands amongst the most renowned ...

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Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket is born in London. 1804: Benjamin Disraeli is born in London. 1844: The Rochdale ...