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This Manuscript Book May Be The Only Surviving Relic Of Thomas Becket

WORDS Posted: September 8, 2020 8:02 am

The elaborate shrine to Becket at Canterbury Cathedral, where he was Archbishop and where he was murdered at the altar by King Henry II’s knights in 1170, was smashed to bits by Protestant iconoclasts during the English Reformation. Every remnant and relic of the man was destroyed. Now an illuminated psalter held at one of the Cambridge colleges has been identified as having belonged to Becket. – Apollo

WORDS Published: 09.04.20

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