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 ...

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 ...

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.

Following the murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket in 1170 AD and his subsequent canonisation it became a place of pilgrimage. St Martin’s church and the ruins of St Augustine’s Abbey form the other ...

After Thomas Becket's murder miracles were reported at his tomb and he was made a saint in 1174. This inspired one of the most famous pilgrimages in Christendom. Comments are closed for this ...