St. Thomas of Canterbury was proclaimed a martyr and canonized a saint less than two years after King Henry II’s knights assassinated him during Vespers on December 29, 1170. Thomas and Henry ...

SAINTS & ART: The witness of St. Thomas Becket, whose feast day is Dec ... for whom he worked was Theobald of Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, who sent him on several missions abroad (including ...

President Donald Trump declared Dec. 29 the anniversary of the Roman Catholic martyr St ... anniversary of St. Thomas Becket’s martyrdom. He was the Archbishop of Canterbury who was murdered ...

A shine to St Thomas Becket who was murdered in Canterbury Cathedral 850 years ... He was believed to have died as a martyr while defending the rights of the Church after a bitter dispute with ...

The White House on Tuesday issued a proclamation praising St. Thomas Becket ... But after 1162, when he became Archbishop of Canterbury, he found himself in conflict with King Henry II over ...

“St Thomas, our Canterbury martyr, gives us a model of a life and a death that bore witness to Jesus, our true, eternal king and saviour.” Arguably the most famous archbishop of ...

the revered shrine of Saint Thomas Becket, the hugely influential former Archbishop of Canterbury and martyr, succumbed to this fate. Becket was one of the most important figures in medieval Europe.

His expertise on the matter dated from a fateful visit to Canterbury Cathedral on December ... of a great abbey in Dublin, named in Thomas the Martyr's honour, which would stand for nearly four ...