THomas Abecket

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I wonder if anyone knows if Thomas Abeckett was warned ahead of time about his death or if there were any prophecies or miracles associated with this man Alexander III cannonized.
 
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ourladynewsouthgate.org.uk/weekly-column/thomas-becket-his-miracles-and-relics

Can’t vouch for the veracity of the site … but this gives some biographical info on Thomas and recounts miracles (real and some dubious accounts that were also recorded).

For an enjoyable hour plus, watch the movie “Becket” starring Richard Burton and Peter O’Toole.

youtube.com/watch?v=qjtWSSWDpJo < other online sites have it for “free” as well. There may be commercials. 😉
 
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http://www.anglican.org/images/becketmurder.gif

ourladynewsouthgate.org.uk/weekly-column/thomas-becket-his-miracles-and-relics

Can’t vouch for the veracity of the site … but this gives some biographical info on Thomas and recounts miracles (real and some dubious accounts that were also recorded).

For an enjoyable hour plus, watch the movie “Becket” starring Richard Burton and Peter O’Toole.

youtube.com/watch?v=qjtWSSWDpJo < other online sites have it for “free” as well. There may be commercials. 😉
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Thanks. You know the first page said his blood was watered down and sold to pilgrims. Was that against Church rules? Wouldn’t that be considered a relic and you can’t sell them can you?
 
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Thanks. You know the first page said his blood was watered down and sold to pilgrims. Was that against Church rules? Wouldn’t that be considered a relic and you can’t sell them can you?
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It looks like the use of his blood took place immediately after his death in 1170 and before he was canonized a saint. So people had this blood in their possession before they were officially relics.

How much control Rome had over Canterbury directly in those days when news was slow to circulate is a question.

You may be right about selling a relic per Church law. But some of the people who had the blood “shared” or sold it. And people bought it apparently. Where miracles were wrought, well, by their fruits you shall know them.

The watering down is another ethical question, but for all I know these might have been
quite simple folk in 1170 AD and perhaps not so versed in Canon Law or even the fact that they had a “relic” that didn’t “belong to them” or couldn’t be sold or shared. 🤷

Since all power comes from God, the amount of power a relic has (watered down or otherwise) would seem to be in His power.

a’Becket was martyred, so perhaps miracles were not needed to establish his sanctity per sainthood … but it appears miracles were worked through his relics. God’s miracles. But that would still mean God wanted Thomas a’Becket honored. 🙂
 
St Thomas Becket is one of my all time favorite saints. 👍

You can read St Thomas Becket’s letters and peoples’ letters to St Thomas here: fordham.edu/halsall/source/hoveden-becket.asp

Here is Edward Grim’s (his lower arm was cut by the same blow that struck St Thomas) eye witness account of St Thomas Becket’s martyrdom: fordham.edu/halsall/source/Grim-becket.asp

A little after St Thomas Becket’s death, a person that personally knew him had this Icon of him painted:
http://sphotos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/q79/s480x480/935992_164188097085864_660139812_n.jpg
 
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