Mine is Thomas Becket, the martyred archbishop of Canterbury ... #related#And that is where the martyrs, the dissidents, and the practitioners of civil disobedience come in.

“Thomas Becket’s martyrdom changed the course of ... And it was bought with the blood of martyrs,” the president added. Trump’s statement called for an end to religious persecution around ...

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 ...

Thomas Becket was Archbishop of Canterbury, the most important bishop in England. In 1170, he was brutally murdered in Canterbury Cathedral. Historians have long debated whether his murder was on ...

From seven years in France, Thomas a Becket returned to England in uneasy ... He transcends even the temptation of becoming a martyr so that he may be worshipped. Corum has destroyed Eliot's ...

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 ...

These blue plaques give them focus.” Plaques include those for religious martyr Saint Thomas Becket, a 600 year-old building, a former jail, and several individuals whose achievements helped to ...