St. Thomas Becket on Martyrdom for Today
Catholic Saints
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The Feast of St. Thomas Beckett
Christopher Bloom: The church offers us the feast days of martyrs during the Christmas octave. He says we're accustomed to thinking about martyrs who are being made in the context of ideologies and wars. But here's a man who's killed essentially by his king at a time of peace, he says.Bloom: What was at stake in the 12th century in England? Well, again, hard for us to appreciate.
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