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.

One of the most well-known pilgrimage sites in Canterbury is the tomb of Thomas Becket, the archbishop who was murdered by ...

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 ...

But consecration changed Becket, who seems to have had a ... But perhaps the most influential Archbishop of Canterbury was Thomas Cranmer, a loyal supporter of Henry VIII’s break from the ...

The cartoon is colourful, irreverend and full of fun, and does not hold back in its grisly depiction of the murder of Becket, then Archbishop of Canterbury ... After Thomas Becket's murder ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Debauched King Henry II (Peter O'Toole) installs his longtime court facilitator Thomas Becket (Richard Burton) as the Archbishop of Canterbury, assuming that his old friend will be a compliant and ...

Murder in the Cathedral is a story about Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, and his struggles against temptation and personal vanity prior to his murder in the great Cathedral.