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New biography of St. Thomas Becket dispels myths with serious scholarship

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Perhaps the second best-known martyrdom in the history of the Anglophone world is St. Thomas Becket, killed in Canterbury Cathedral during Vespers at the hands of four knights motivated by King Henry II of England’s […]

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