On December 29, 1890, U.S. Army troops killed hundreds of Lakota Sioux at Wounded Knee, South Dakota. December 29 marks ...

On Dec. 29, 1170, the archbishop of Canterbury was cut down in his own cathedral. “Every attempt to tell the story of Thomas Becket,” writes Michael Staunton in his biography of the martyred ...

A merchant’s son, Thomas Becket rose to fame and fortune as a royal chancellor and then archbishop of England — all due to the patronage of Henry II, whose eventual fury over Becket’s ecclesiastical ...

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 ...

The White House on Tuesday issued a proclamation praising St. Thomas Becket, an English archbishop who was martyred 850 years ago after conflict with King Henry II over the rights of the Church.

If not for a flat tire, Marta Becket may never have come across the abandoned hotel and social hall in the desert that would come to be her lifelong stage. While her husband looked for help with 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 ...

More than 850 years ago, on December 29, 1170, Sir Thomas Becket was brutally murdered. The former Archbishop of Canterbury had initially been a close friend of Henry II, but their relationship soured ...

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.

BECKET — Having grown up in a house she believes was the northernmost one in the Underground Railroad, Aimee Bucciarelli Felker appreciates a house with history. So when she first spotted the 1804 ...

"For the name of Jesus and the protection of the church I am ready to embrace death." In spite of Becket's stature then and now, few people today know his story, a tale that bristles with ironies and ...

BECKET — Becket’s town administrator will soon close more than three years of service to the community — and shift to commuting east to work, rather than west. William Caldwell will start work April ...