A container that it is claimed once held a relic of St Thomas Becket is to go on display at a cathedral. The enamelled ...

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 ...

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 ...

81. How good men grieved after the death of the holy archbishop Thomas. Cambridge Library Collection gives today’s readers access to books that until recently would have been available only in ...

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.

Superseding the earlier work of J. A. Giles, it is a collection of contemporary Latin lives and letters relating to the life of Thomas Becket (c.1120–70). Rising through the ranks to become royal ...

On 29 December 1170, Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, was brutally murdered in his cathedral by four knights of his King and one-time friend, Henry II. In the space of ten years, a close ...

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That didn't stop Smith from likening himself to the medieval Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas à Becket, who was officially sainted by Pope Alexander III in 1173, according to the British Museum.