A shine to St Thomas Becket who was murdered in Canterbury Cathedral 850 years ago has been ... available evidence to reconstruct how the shrine would have looked in 1408. They say up to 100,000 ...

Who was Thomas Becket? King Henry II made his close ... Becket was made a saint in 1173 and his shrine in Canterbury Cathedral became a focus for pilgrimage.

More has been written about Thomas Becket, the archbishop hacked to death in Canterbury ... the east end of the cathedral was rebuilt in pink-tinged stone around a shrine to Becket, also in ...

Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (1815–81), later Dean of Westminster, was a canon of Canterbury when he published this work, consisting of four essays on the history of the cathedral ... the murder of Becket, ...

Labelled the 'UK's postcard city' by UK Hidden Gems, Canterbury is a city and UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Kent, and ...

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 ... while presiding over daily vespers inside his Canterbury Cathedral. Becket was a particularly intelligent Norman who had served ...