THE assassination of Thomas Becket is known as one of the famous, shocking, and violent murders in history. But just what happened between Becket and King Henry II to lead to the then Archbishop of ...

Thomas Becket was one of the most powerful figures of his time, serving as Royal Chancellor and later as Archbishop of Canterbury, but his murder at Canterbury Cathedral changed the course of history ...

SAINTS & ART: The witness of St. Thomas Becket, whose feast day is Dec. 29, underscores the perennial truth that no earthly king reigns above Christ. Detail of Willem Vrelant, “The Martyrdom of St.

Relics from the centuries-old crime scene will go on show at the British Museum’s first major exhibition about the medieval martyr For centuries it was the world’s most notorious state-sanctioned ...

St. Thomas Becket may be the least appealing of the saints. He was arrogant, inflexible, combative, and convinced that he was always right. And that was after his conversion. Yet, throughout the ...

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 ...

The last hours of Thomas Becket’s life, in December 1170, are the reason we remember him. If the four knights had not completed their bloody work in the transept of Canterbury Cathedral, bludgeoning ...

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