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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".

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The Life of S. Thomas, Martyr, of Canterbury

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/goldenlegend/GL-vol2-thomasbecket.html

A medieval hagiography. From "The Golden Legend," by Jacobus de Voragine. William Caxton translation.

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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.

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Patron Saints Index: Thomas a Becket

http://saints.sqpn.com/saintt09.htm

Illustrated, with links, and a reading from a letter by St. Thomas.

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Edward Grim's Account of the Murder of Thomas Becket

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/grim-becket.html

From Vita S. Thomae, Cantuariensis Archepiscopi et Martyris. Grim was an eyewitness and, in fact, tried to stop the first blow.

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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.

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Becket, Thomas

http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Thomas_Becket

Biographical article from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.

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