Events that occurred this week in Christian history include the execution of Mary Dyer, Thomas a Becket being consecrated ...

The Papal nuncio will celebrate Mass for the first time in Canterbury Cathedral on 7 July, to mark the feast of the ...

Thomas Becket was one of the most powerful figures of his time, serving as Royal Chancellor and later as Archbishop of Canterbury, but his murder at Canterbury Cathedral changed the course of ...

Contemporaries described Thomas as tall and thin ... But Henry had his way and Becket was installed. When Becket became archbishop, he devoted himself to being the church's leader with the ...

Thomas refused any compromise when it came to the liberty and rights of the Church. His stubbornness even frustrated the pope, who urged the archbishop to make some concession to the king. Becket ...

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 ...

from Thomas Becket’s remarkable rise from humble origins to become the archbishop of Canterbury, one of the most powerful figures in England, to his death at the hands of the king’s men in his ...

This means that some of the windows may have overlooked the murder scene of Thomas Becket, the archbishop of Canterbury who was slain at the cathedral's altar by soldiers loyal to Henry II in 1170.

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 ...

But consecration changed Becket, who seems to have had a ... But perhaps the most influential Archbishop of Canterbury was ...

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 ...

The Archbishop, Thomas Becket, was on the fourth step beyond the central pillar ascending into the choir when the Knights came in. The outline of his figure may have been just visible to them ...