Directory of Saint Thomas à Becket Resources

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Information on St. Thomas Becket, archbishop of Canterbury, also known as Thomas à Becket and St. Thomas of Canterbury. He was murdered in Canterbury Cathedral on 29 December 1170 by four of King Henry II's knights.

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• Catholic Encyclopedia: St. Thomas Becket

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14676a.htm
  Biography of this martyr, also known as St. Thomas of Canterbury, where he was archbishop and where he was murdered in 1170.

• Catholic Online: St. Thomas Becket

  http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=12
  Brief biography.

• CatholicSaints.Info: Thomas a Becket

  http://catholicsaints.info/saint-thomas-a-becket/
  Illustrated, with links, and a reading from a letter by St. Thomas.

• Edward Grim's Account of the Murder of Thomas Becket

  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/Grim-becket.asp
  From Vita S. Thomae, Cantuariensis Archepiscopi et Martyris. Grim was an eyewitness and, in fact, tried to stop the first blow.

• Saint Thomas Becket

  http://www.ewtn.com/library/MARY/THOMBECK.htm
  Entry for this bishop and martyr, from the book "Lives of Saints," published by John J. Crawley.

• The Life of S. Thomas, Martyr, of Canterbury

  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/goldenlegend/GL-vol2-thomasbecket.asp
  A medieval hagiography. From "The Golden Legend," by Jacobus de Voragine. William Caxton translation.

• The Martyrdom of Saint Thomas Becket

  http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/3628/willem-vrelant-the-martyrdom-of-saint-thomas-becket-flemish-early-1460s/
  Miniature from a fifteenth-century Flemish book of hours.

• The Murder of Becket

  http://www.cin.org/saints/becketm.html
  Excerpt from a novel by Alfred Duggan.

• Thomas of Canterbury

  http://elvis.rowan.edu/~kilroy/JEK/12/29.html
  Includes a digression on "benefit of clergy", and an excerpt from T.S. Eliot's "Murder in the Cathedral".

• Todd Drain: St. Thomas Becket

  http://www.cin.org/saints/td1229.html
  Fairly lengthy biographical essay. With prayers.

 

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