✨ On Saint Thomas Becket’s feast day, we recall Servant of God Hermann Cohen, the friar who established the Teresian Carmel in England, “Mary’s Dowry.” In an 1864 lecture, he speaks about the mission's progress.
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Today, we remember Saint Thomas Becket who chose faith over favor. Once a friend of the king he died defending the Church at the altar. His martyrdom reminds us true discipleship means carrying the cross even when we stand alone. #jesus #catholicchurch #catholic #saintthomasbecket #stthomasbecket
A 13th-century manuscript illumination, the earliest known depiction of Thomas Becket's assassination in Canterbury Cathedral
St Thomas Becket didn’t die for “religion”. He died because Christ is Lord—and no power gets the final word over the Gospel.
On this Fifth Day of Christmas: let our tenderness be real, and our obedience unbought.
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On the Feast Day of #StThomasBecket here's some rather beautiful stained glass from the Chapter House at Canterbury Cathedral showing Becket's murder and the Penance of King Henry II.
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Stone font c. 1190 has large heavy round basin with figures shown engaged in different activities under a series of arches. Base below is inverted basin shape and view shown has a ram figure in high relief with head extending outwards on the left, and a human with hands on their chin on the right, with plants in lower relief between the two. Was displayed in British Museum exhibition on Becket in 2021.
#MedievalMonday
On Feast Day of #StThomasBecket, this exceptional font in Lyngsjö Church, Sweden, where saint was v popular.
Made 20 years after Becket's 1170 assassination, Henry II shown as instigating murder. On L he holds a scroll inscribed REX H[EN]ricus. On R knights attack the archbishop.
Saints, shrines and relics: Catholic Mass in Anglicanism’s home cathedral taps UK’s vogue for pre-Reformation piety. @sightmagazine.bsky.social #CanterburyCathedral #ChurchofEngland #CatholicChurch #StThomasBecket #Catholicsaints #Catholicrelics #indulgences
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The “apparel of the amice” design with four petal flowers & crosses between.
It is stunning.
This is what the whole section of the window based on the “apparel of the amice” is like.
The original amice worn by Becket is in #Sens Cathedral, France
St Thomas of Canterbury Church, #Greatford #Lincolnshire
#StThomasBecket (2015) window by #HelenWhittaker
#StainedGlassSunday
The pattern of the “apparel of the amice (clerical hood) worn by Becket divides the window. The “heavenly” realm above (with stars) from the “earthly” realm below. The design has large four petal flowers with cross shapes between.
St Thomas of Canterbury Church, #Greatford #Lincolnshire
Beautiful #shadows - #StThomasBecket (2015) window by #HelenWhittaker.
This detail is based on the “apparel of the amice (clerical hood) worn by Becket. Now in #Sens Cathedral, France.
#StainedGlassSunday
#OTD 1170 Thomas Becket Archbishop of Canterbury murdered in his cathedral by group of knights who believed that they were acting on orders of King Henry II. Becket’s shrine one of the most important in England before it was destroyed on orders of Henry VIII #stthomasbecket #thomasbecket #onthisday
Join a costumed guide for an immersive #CanterburyTales tour with #CanterburyCityTours
School groups participate in a re-enactment of the murder of #StThomasBecket & enjoy an interactive storytelling of The Pardoner's Tale.
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Today is the #5thdayofChristmas, & the feast of #StThomasBecket
There are lots of #medieval songs for St Thomas, but few from the #earlymodern period, as his cult was outlawed during the #Reformation.
Here is Clangat Tuba, an early #Tudor carol for today from the Ritson Manuscript (BL Add MS 5665)
