Mine is Thomas Becket, the martyred archbishop of Canterbury, whose feast day is today. Catholic saints have done well vis-à-vis English kings, particularly on stage and in the movies.
AN UNASSUMING house hides an incredible 800-year-old secret 60ft beneath its floorboards – and it could be yours for £1m. Beckets is a Grade II-listed house based in the village of Eastry in ...
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 ...
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, the Archbishop of Canterbury, was murdered as he conducted a service in the cathedral on 29 December 1170. The four knights who attacked him believed they were acting on the orders ...
The president has declared war on the nation, the nation as we have known it. — Anonymous If you ever go to Canterbury Cathedral in England, drops of blood from ages ago are still there on the altar ...
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 ...