is that you get to choose your own patron saint instead of having one thrust upon you at birth by your parents, who hardly know you. Mine is Thomas Becket, the martyred archbishop of Canterbury ...

Today is the Feast Day of Thomas Becket: Martyr and Saint. The ascetic Archbishop was martyred on this day, December 29, in the year of our Lord 1170, while presiding over daily vespers inside his ...

WASHINGTON — The White House on Tuesday issued a proclamation praising St. Thomas Becket, an English archbishop who was martyred 850 years ago after conflict with King Henry II over the rights ...

Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury ... Following his martyrdom Becket was made a saint in 1173, with Henry II paying public penance in Canterbury the following year.

Thomas Becket was Archbishop of Canterbury ... whipped by bishops while he prayed for forgiveness. Becket was made a saint by Pope Alexander III in 1173, just three years after his death.

When Anthony Tanata, the father to be, stepped up to the desk at Hutchinson Health Hospital to check his wife in, he asked, “Any New Year’s babies born, yet?” The staff replied, “Today is ...