St. Thomas of Canterbury was proclaimed a martyr and canonized a saint less than two years after King Henry II’s knights assassinated him during Vespers on December 29, 1170. Thomas and Henry had been ...
This Reformation-era cope, present now at the Met, was most likely used at the coronation of King Henry VIII in 1509. (By permission of the Governors of Stonyhurst College; copyright Stonyhurst ...
The relics of two 16th-century saints are scheduled to make a brief stop in St. Cloud on Monday night. Relics of St. Thomas More and St. John Fisher are coming to St. Mary’s Cathedral as part of the ...