They entered the cathedral and are said to have shouted “Where is Thomas Becket ... He travelled to Becket’s tomb at Canterbury and declared the uprising was his punishment for what happened ...

A service will be held in Canterbury Cathedral to mark the anniversary of the martyrdom of one of England's most famous saints. Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury, was murdered as he ...

Mine is Thomas Becket, the martyred archbishop of Canterbury, whose feast day is ... Eliot’s great verse play, Murder in the Cathedral, and Richard Burton’s stoic, manful performance in ...

Oliver Postgate (of Bagpuss fame) and Naomi Linnell (from Canterbury Cathedral Library ... After Thomas Becket's murder miracles were reported at his tomb and he was made a saint in 1174.

was transformed by the murder and canonisation of Archbishop Thomas Becket, whose Cathedral shrine attracted pilgrims from all over Europe and Canterbury became the seat of the spiritual leader of the ...

From seven years in France, Thomas a Becket returned to England in uneasy peace with his king. Four weeks later he was murdered upon the altar of Canterbury Cathedral. The fabric of history ...