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The murder of Thomas Becket in 1170, cut down inside Canterbury Cathedral by knights of King Henry II’s retinue, sent shock waves throughout England and beyond – an act as scandalous, according to one of his successors as archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, as the assassination of JFK or Martin Luther King. The extent to which those ripples reverberated across Europe will be illustrated by a number of rare exhibits on display for the first. ....
British Museum’s Thomas Becket show to feature ‘miracle’ stained glass window Robert Dex A huge 800-year-old stained glass window will take pride of place in a new British Museum show about one of the most notorious murders in British history. Thomas Becket: Murder and the Making of a Saint opens in April and will tell how the merchant’s son rose to become Archbishop of Canterbury before he was hacked down in his own cathedral probably on the orders of King Henry II. His murder was considered a scandalous act of sacrilege and, within days, miracles were being attributed to Becket, many connected to the healing power of his spilt blood, which lead to his canonisation as a saint by the Pope. ....
Stained glass window from Canterbury Cathedral to be centrepiece for UK exhibition on Thomas Becket at the British Museum | Updated: 12:14, 27 January 2021 A complete stained-glass window from Canterbury Cathedral will be loaned to the British Museum for a major new UK exhibition on Thomas Becket. The window, which will be shown in it s original arrangement for the first time in 350 years, is one of the cathedral s greatest treasures. Leonie Seliger is the Director of Stained Glass Conservation at Canterbury Cathedral As revealed in our feature on the former Archbishop of Canterbury published today, the exhibition is due to be staged at the museum later this year. ....
BBC News By Stephen Mulvey image copyrightCorpus Christi College, Cambridge 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 seems it s still possible to discover new things about his remarkable life. Before dawn on 14 October 1164, Thomas Becket found an open gate in the city walls and rode out of Northampton with a servant and two guides, the sound of their horses hooves masked by high wind and driving rain. The archbishop was making a run for it after a week on trial in Northampton Castle. The initial charge had been a minor one, but King Henry II had added new and increasingly serious accusations, and a verdict of treason was looking likely. ....