England: Henry II's "Troublesome Priest Returns: Thomas Becket's Elbow Arrives Back in UK for the First Time in 800 Years to Go on Show in the Very Ca

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Archbishop Thomas Becket was greatly revered by Catholics in England after he was murdered in 1170 by followers of the English king, stabbed to death before the altar where he was saying mass. He was canonized two years after he was murdered. Then when Henry VIII set up his own church in England in the 1500s, the saint’s shrine was desecrated, and his bones destroyed, and all mention of his name forbidden. But a relic of the martyr has returned now at last: one of his bones was kept and honored in Hungary, and it has just been brought back to England, and now is revered there.
see dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3604319/Relic-murdered-archbishop-Thomas-Becket-England-pilgrimage.html
 
To be displayed and reverenced in Canterbury Cathedral, the main church of the Anglican Communion!

Wonderful news!

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Well, Canterbury is where his shrine is. And that is where the rest of him lies. Where else would he go?
 
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