D.B.S.Jeyaraj
‘Murder in the Cathedral’ is a drama written in verse by the great poet, essayist and playwright Thomas Stearnes Eliot known to the literary world as T.S. Eliot. It is based on the assassination of Archbishop Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral in December 1170 during the reign of King Henry II. Eliot had relied heavily on the eyewitness account of the murder by a monk Edward Grim published later.
‘’Murder in the Cathedral,’
I first came across TS Eliot’s ‘Murder in the Cathedral’ when I was a student at Jaffna College, Vaddukkoddai. The Chief librarian Sebaratnam Thambiah was an aficionado of drama who often produced and directed plays. Trying to stage ‘Murder in the Cathedral’ was one of his ambitious ventures. A few of us students and some teachers were roped in and given copies of the verse drama. I liked it very much then. We attended a few rehearsals but the project never got off the ground. However the abortive attempt helped instil in me
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11/12/2020
thanniversary of Archbishop Thomas Becket preaching at St Mary Overie.
On 11 December 1170 Archbishop Thomas Becket preached at the Priory of St Mary Overie, which is now Southwark Cathedral. This was to be the final sermon he preached in London as he was subsequently martyred in Canterbury Cathedral on 29 December.
Archbishop Justin Welby preached this sermon today at Choral Evensong at the Cathedral. He was joined by the Dean of Canterbury, the Very Revd Robert Willis, and representatives from St George’s Roman Catholic Cathedral, Southwark.
Psalm 119.161-168; Jeremiah 20.7-13; 2 Timothy 4.1-8
On the site of the old Cathedral in Avranches, in the Marches of Brittany and Normandy, there is a stone which marks the point where Henry II knelt in penance as he began a pilgrimage to Canterbury to atone for the murder of the Archbishop.