CANTERBURY, England — One cannot help but be overawed when entering Canterbury Cathedral, whose origins date back to St. Augustine of Canterbury, the Benedictine monk sent by Pope St. Gregory ...

The stained-glass windows of England's Canterbury Cathedral are so ... to draw his weapon. By the altar and under the light streaming through the windows, four sword blows rained down on the ...

A shine to St Thomas Becket who was murdered in Canterbury Cathedral 850 years ago has been ... Chapel depicts Thomas Becket praying at the altar Dr Jenkins said within 10 years of Thomas ...

Canterbury cathedral, the mother church of the Anglican ... priest", murdered the then Archbishop Thomas à Becket at the altar because of his adherence to Rome. * Within three years, Becket ...

University College London / Canterbury Cathedral Some of the ... soldiers serving Henry II murdered Thomas Becket at the cathedral’s altar in December 1170. Léonie Seliger, head of stained ...

Forthcoming digital guide will include technology capable of bringing sections of building back to life as they would have looked Visitors to Canterbury ... the high altar of the cathedral ...

EXETER, ENGLAND—Excavations in the choir area at Exeter Cathedral led by cathedral archaeologist John Allan have uncovered foundations of a Christian high altar dated to the early twelfth ...

Old iron nails taken from the repaired roof of Canterbury ... suspended at the cathedral above the site of the first tomb of Thomas Becket, the archbishop murdered at the altar on December 29 ...

Forty years ago, an historian of Canterbury's glass knew that some of its windows showed the style of 1150. Science has proved her right. High up in Canterbury Cathedral, 86 almost life-size ...