Saint Thomas à Becket (Subscribe)
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Todd Drain: St. Thomas Becket
http://www.cin.org/saints/td1229.html
Fairly lengthy biographical essay. With prayers.
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".
The Martyrdom of Saint Thomas Becket
http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artObjectDetails?artobj=3927
Miniature from a fifteenth-century Flemish book of hours.
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.
The Ecole Glossary: Thomas à Becket
http://www2.evansville.edu/ecoleweb/glossary/becket.html
Short biography, by Karen Rae Keck. Has some odd breaks in words.
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.
Patron Saints Index: Thomas a Becket
http://saints.sqpn.com/saintt09.htm
Illustrated, with links, and a reading from a letter by St. Thomas.
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.
Catholic Online: St. Thomas Becket
http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=12
Brief biography.
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.
Becket, Thomas
http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Thomas_Becket
Biographical article from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.