Saint Thomas Becket in Exile, Stained-glass windows in Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Chartres, created and installed between ...

It can be easy to look back to medieval times and laugh at the fascination - and extensive trade - of religious relics. After all, the appeal of the bones, hair, teeth, clothes and even brains of ...

IT COULD HAVE been a scene from “The Sopranos”, only the irascible capo was King Henry II of England. The irksome upstart who had to be neutralised was Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury. “Will ...

Thomas Becket was one of the most powerful figures of his time, serving as Royal Chancellor and later as Archbishop of Canterbury, but his murder at Canterbury Cathedral changed the course of history ...

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 the ...

'Troublesome priest' or tormented soul - was Becket Henry's nemesis? The murder of Thomas Becket and his subsequent martyrdom has so overshadowed the reign of Henry II that it is often as difficult to ...