St. Thomas Becket’s stand echoes through history, a story of loyalty, betrayal and martyrdom brought to life with Martin Scorsese’s signature intensity in the newest episode of "The Saints." Viewers ...

A merchant’s son, Thomas Becket rose to fame and fortune as a royal chancellor and then archbishop of England — all due to the patronage of Henry II, whose eventual fury over Becket’s ecclesiastical ...

On Dec. 29, 1170, the archbishop of Canterbury was cut down in his own cathedral. “Every attempt to tell the story of Thomas Becket,” writes Michael Staunton in his biography of the martyred ...

The Central Berkshire Regional School District will host community forums on the Becket Washington Elementary School on Wednesday, Jan. 14, in Becket, and Monday, Jan. 26, in Washington.

The White House on Tuesday issued a proclamation praising St. Thomas Becket, an English archbishop who was martyred 850 years ago after conflict with King Henry II over the rights of the Church.

The 12th-century martyrdom of St. Thomas Becket is one of those grisly chapters of history seemingly plucked from the script of a gore-laden HBO show. Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury, was cut ...

THE assassination of Thomas Becket is known as one of the famous, shocking, and violent murders in history. But just what happened between Becket and King Henry II to lead to the then Archbishop of ...

More has been written about Thomas Becket, the archbishop hacked to death in Canterbury Cathedral exactly 850 years ago, than any other non-royal English person of the Middle Ages. And yet it seems it ...

"For the name of Jesus and the protection of the church I am ready to embrace death." In spite of Becket's stature then and now, few people today know his story, a tale that bristles with ironies and ...