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British Museum exhibit on St Thomas Becket gives sympathetic look at past
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British Museum exhibit on St Thomas Becket gives sympathetic look at past
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April 19, 2021 at 4:37 pm
On 29 December 1170, four of King Henry II’s knights murdered Archbishop Thomas Becket inside Canterbury Cathedral, scattering his blood and brains across the pavement. The killing, 850 years ago, marked the end of one of the most brilliant, divisive careers of England’s Middle Ages. Yet, in many ways, it was also a beginning.
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News of Becket’s killing spread quickly and, in a matter of months, he had been transformed into one of the most famous martyrs in Christian history. Becket was canonised a mere three years after his death, while, within a decade, Canterbury monks had recorded 703 miracles related to the slain archbishop, and tens of thousands of visitors had flocked to the cathedral to venerate his remains. Supported by the circulation of new liturgies, miracle stories, sacred objects and holy relics, the cult of Becket soon dominated the landscape of Christendom, from Trondheim to Tarsus and Rochester to R
Dec 30, 2020 contributor
A stained glass window of St. Thomas Becket is seen at St. Alban s Cathedral in St. Albans, England. (Credit: Gene Plaisted/The Crosiers via CNS.)
The White House issued a proclamation honoring the 850th anniversary of the martyrdom of St. Thomas Becket Dec. 29 and inviting the people of the United States to observe the day in schools and churches and customary places of meeting with appropriate ceremonies.
WASHINGTON, D.C. The White House issued a proclamation honoring the 850th anniversary of the martyrdom of St. Thomas Becket Dec. 29 and inviting “the people of the United States to observe the day in schools and churches and customary places of meeting with appropriate ceremonies.”