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Claire BarnesAfter <a href="https://h-net.social/tags/ThomasBecket" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ThomasBecket</a> was assassinated in <a href="https://h-net.social/tags/CanterburyCathedral" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CanterburyCathedral</a> on 29 Dec 1170, reports of miraculous healing started to circulate within a week, and pilgrim numbers soared. The vibrant colours of the <a href="https://h-net.social/tags/StainedGlass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StainedGlass</a> windows around his shrine may have seemed almost as wondrous to <a href="https://h-net.social/tags/medieval" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#medieval</a> visitors as the <a href="https://h-net.social/tags/miracles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#miracles</a> they depict.📷 Julian P. Guffogg, CC BY-SA 2.0; more at <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/jpguffogg/albums/72157640046578935/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.flickr.com/photos/jpguffogg/albums/72157640046578935/</a><a href="https://h-net.social/tags/craftsmanship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#craftsmanship</a> <a href="https://h-net.social/tags/wonder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wonder</a> <a href="https://h-net.social/tags/pilgrimage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pilgrimage</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/medievodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@medievodons</a>

Dr Dan O’BrienI share my birthday with the feast day of Thomas Becket, the day on which he was murdered in Canterbury Cathedral. Here the events of 29 Dec 1170 are carved into a font from Lyngsjö Church, Sweden - on display in 2021 at the British Museum Becket exhibition. We see his murder at the hands of the knights and Edward Grim (one of the witnesses) taking a wound on the arm <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/medieval" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#medieval</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/becket" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#becket</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#histodons</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#history</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/sverige" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sverige</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/MedievalMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MedievalMastodon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/saint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#saint</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/saints" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#saints</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ThomasBecket" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ThomasBecket</a>

Tamsin Lewis29 December is the <a href="https://historians.social/tags/5thDayofChristmas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#5thDayofChristmas</a>, and the feast of <a href="https://historians.social/tags/StThomasofCanterbury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StThomasofCanterbury</a>. There are a number of <a href="https://historians.social/tags/medieval" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#medieval</a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/songs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#songs</a> for St Thomas, but very few from the <a href="https://historians.social/tags/earlymodern" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#earlymodern</a> period, as his cult was outlawed during the <a href="https://historians.social/tags/Reformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Reformation</a>. Here is Clangat Tuba, an early <a href="https://historians.social/tags/Tudor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tudor</a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/carol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#carol</a> for his day from the <a href="https://historians.social/tags/Ritson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ritson</a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/Manuscript" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Manuscript</a> (BL Add. MS 5665)<a href="https://historians.social/tags/ThomasBecket" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ThomasBecket</a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#histodons</a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/histodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#histodon</a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/Tudors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tudors</a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/earlymusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#earlymusic</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@histodons</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@histodon</a>

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