Effigies of Saint Thomas Becket, Henry II and his wife Queen Eleanor will be the centrepiece of Canterbury's medieval pageant on Saturday. Saint Thomas was murdered in the Kent city's cathedral in ...

Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury, was murdered as he conducted ... Following his martyrdom Becket was made a saint in 1173, with Henry II paying public penance in Canterbury the ...

Canterbury's other important monuments are the modest Church of St Martin, the oldest church ... based on Augustine and its other early saints, was transformed by the murder and canonisation of ...

With the three coinciding jubilees of a saint of such enduring consequence, Thomas has been celebrated this year in academic conferences and expositions of his relics. Francis, after medieval ...