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  • THOMAS BECKET
  • RELIQUARY; BECKET
  • THOMAS BECKET
  • BECKET; CANTERBURY
  • CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL
  • KING HENRY II
The British Museum is making this the year of St. Thomas Becket, 850 years after his assassination.
This 15th-century image of St. Thomas Becket being struck with a large sword is made of alabaster, a material for which English craftsmen were famed.
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