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Há 4 dias · Saint of the day: St. Thomas Becket - Catholic News Agency. Saturday, May 25, 2024. ... St. Thomas was born in London, England around the year 1117. He was the son of pious parents, ...
18 de mai. de 2024 · K.V. Turley, August 17, 2021 – National Catholic Register. LONDON — An exhibition, the largest of its scale, on St. Thomas Becket is currently on display at the British Museum in London to mark 850 years since the saint’s martyrdom. “ Thomas Becket: Murder and the Making of a Saint ” charts more than 500 years of history ...
Há 3 dias · K.V. Turley, December 29, 2021 – National Catholic Register. December 29 is the feast day of St. Thomas Becket. The martyred 12 th century bishop is known for his opposition to the then overreach of state power in the person of England’s King Henry II. Across the world today there is a renewed clash between the Church and state ...
Há 4 dias · Thomas Becket‘s transformation from controversial archbishop to revered saint was remarkably swift. Just three years after his death, in 1173, he was canonized by Pope Alexander III, and his tomb at Canterbury Cathedral became a popular pilgrimage site.
Há 3 dias · The connection with England is not by accident. Saint Thomas Becket first instituted the feast in the twelfth century to mark the day he was ordained as Canterbury's archbishop. After the martyrdom of Becket a few years later, the feast gained popularity all over Europe. Understanding the Doctrine of the Trinity
Há 3 dias · As well as St. Thomas’ head relic, this includes King Henry II choosing the church as the place to embark on his public act of penance following the murder of St. Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral, and having the oldest functioning church bell in England, which dates from pre-Reformation times.
Há 5 dias · This book marks the 800th anniversary of the translation of Thomas Becket’s relics in 1220 from the crypt of Canterbury Cathedral to the shrine in the Trinity Chapel. In it, John Butler carefully sifts the evidence about the fate of Becket’s bones when the shrine was destroyed in 1538, and he explores a series of probing questions.
