Becket’s Miracle Windows
Jan 07, 2022
2 minutes
A London-born merchant’s son, Thomas Becket became royal chancellor and then Archbishop of Canterbury in later life, but it was his death that defined his legacy. Murdered by King Henry II’s knights in Canterbury Cathedral on 29 December 1170, witness accounts describe how Thomas Becket’s brains spilled onto the floor
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