Enter stage left, Thomas à Becket. The Archbishop of Canterbury, murdered a millennium ago on his cathedral’s floor, appears in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s latest brief to the District of Columbia ...

December 29 is the feast day of St. Thomas Becket. The martyred 12 th century bishop is known for his opposition to the then overreach of state power in the person of England’s King Henry II.

Thomas a Becket murdered – Dec. 29, 1170 This week marks the anniversary of when Archbishop Thomas a Becket was brutally murdered by four knights in the sanctuary of Canterbury Cathedral in England.

Events that occurred this week in Christian history include the execution of Mary Dyer, Thomas a Becket being consecrated archbishop of Canterbury and the founding of the Young Men's Christian ...