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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 22 December 2024. Archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 to 1170, Christian martyr "Thomas a Becket" redirects here. Not to be confused with Thomas à Beckett (disambiguation). For the school in Northampton, see Thomas Becket Catholic School. For other uses, see Thomas Beckett. This article contains too many ...
The Becket Casket is a reliquary made in about 1180–90 in Limoges, France, and depicts one of the most infamous events in English history, the murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket. [1] Following the assassination, relics of St Thomas were placed in similar reliquaries and dispersed across the world.
France. Musée d'art Roger-Quilliot in Clermont-Ferrand; [1]; Musée de la Sénatorerie in Guéret; [2]; Musée de l'Évêché in Limoges;; Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon;; Musée du Louvre in Paris (2 reliquaries - Murder and Burial of Saint Thomas Becket and Martyrdom and Glorification of Saint Thomas Becket;
In 1873, a Neo-Gothic wooden altar of St. Thomas Becket, likely crafted by Adalbert Siekinder from Munich, along with a painting of the patron by Jan Bochenek and organs, were installed in the chapel. [3] [8] [22] A few years later, the interior was enriched with stonework. The three-part windows were adorned with tracery. [22]
Plan of Trinity Chapel. In 1220, Becket's remains were translated from his first tomb to the finished chapel. As a result of this event, the chapel became a major pilgrimage site, inspiring Geoffrey Chaucer to write The Canterbury Tales in 1387 and with routes (e.g. from Southwark (Chaucer's route) and the Pilgrim's Way to/from Winchester) converging on the cathedral.
Pilgrimage sites housed a saint's relics: sometimes the whole body, sometimes a body part or significant object owned or touched by the saint. For example, St Thomas Becket was martyred at Canterbury Cathedral in England in 1170 and his body remained there, becoming the epicentre of an enormously popular cult. In 1220 it was translated into a ...
The Corona, Canterbury Cathedral is the east end of Canterbury Cathedral, named after the severed crown of Thomas Becket (St. Thomas the Martyr), whose shrine it was built to contain. The tomb of Cardinal Pole in the cathedral. Becket was murdered in the north transept of the cathedral on 29 December 1170. Four years later a disastrous fire ...
The Fermo chasuble of St. Thomas Becket is a garment belonging to Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 until his murder in 1170. On display at the Museo Diocesano in Fermo , the chasuble is among the possessions of the treasury of the Fermo Cathedral (Duomo di Fermo). [ 1 ]