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

is that you get to choose your own patron saint instead of having one thrust upon you at birth by your parents, who hardly know you. Mine is Thomas Becket, the martyred archbishop of Canterbury ...

Mabel Wulff from Newport lived in Nazi Germany - surviving years of Gestapo harassment and bravely fighting fires caused by ...

A shine to St Thomas Becket who was murdered in Canterbury Cathedral 850 years ago has been reconstructed using CGI. The memorial was built in Trinity Chapel but was destroyed during the ...

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login Thomas Becket - the archbishop of Canterbury cut down in his own cathedral ... This book examines the development of the cult and the ...

Thomas Becket was Archbishop of Canterbury ... whipped by bishops while he prayed for forgiveness. Becket was made a saint by Pope Alexander III in 1173, just three years after his death.

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 ...