Posted on 11/05/2018 4:44:33 PM PST by marshmallow
Vatican to send back historic relic worn by archbishop as he was brutally murdered
A bloodstained tunic belonging to Thomas Becket is to be returned to Britain from the Vatican to help mark the 850th anniversary of the murder of the former archbishop of Canterbury and the 800th anniversary of the creation of his shrine.
Canterbury Cathedral, where Becket was killed in December 1170 following a bitter dispute with King Henry II, became a shrine after Pope Alexander III made Becket a saint following the murder. It drew thousands of pilgrims from England and across Europe until the shrine was destroyed in 1538 by Henry VIII.
In recent times the site of Becket’s murder has again attracted visitors, and Canterbury Cathedral is to host a series of celebrations in 2020 to mark the anniversaries, including a major church service, jointly held by Catholics and Anglicans, and an exhibition of artefacts linked to Becket.
Given the destruction during the Reformation, when Henry VIII broke with Rome and ordered the dissolution of the monasteries, Canterbury itself has little left of Becket’s body or his belongings. But the tunic – or more properly tunicle, a garment worn to celebrate mass – escaped destruction because it was given to the pope by Henry’s father, Henry VII, 50 years earlier and kept in Rome. It has since been housed in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, one of the great papal churches of Rome
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There are a few movies I have had to own over the years, and that was one of them. I have others (my all time favorite is “The Best Years of Our Lives”) but you are so right Governor Dinwiddie.
What is being offered up is just not powerful to me. It seems that Hollywood has completely lost its originality, and they seem to be incapable of doing more than “Rocky X”, “Star Wars Whatever Comes Up Next”, or another superhero movie.
Don’t get me wrong -I enjoy good CGI in movies, I like seeing futuristic things, but I also like seeing good GCI to portray an era in the past. I have always hoped someone would make a historically accurate movie about the Battle of Leyte Gulf in WWII. Amazing story, unknown to so many Americans.
But I have grown weary of the way CGI is used, in much the same way people got tired of the old (and some new) 3D movies that had spears and arrows coming out of the screen until it became a tiresome cliche.
I like a good drama, with a good original plot, and good acting.
Well, rant off. I guess it is time for me to re-watch “Beckett” again soon...:)
The one that stared Richard Burton.
That was stupid.
TCM Tonight at 10pm The Best Years Of Our Lives. My most watched movie.
Timeless movie, isn’t it? Sixty plus years, and the themes are the same.
Yes. The one with Richard Burton and Peter O’Toole.
It was not only informative (I did not know anything about Beckett) but I loved the acting and the historical aspect. Although there has been criticism that the riff between them was more political than the break of their friendship. I wonder about that.
I too find the new movies tiresome and predictable. People running around in capes and everyone has to be in their 20s or look it.
I miss those old stars like Burton and O’Toole.
Man of all Seasons, anyone?
The main historical error in the Burton-O’Toole Becket movie was the making of Becket some sort of Anglo-Saxon collaborator then hero. He was a Norman, bother parents his father was a small landowner and/or petty Norman knight. Both parents originated from Thierville in Normandy.
Otherwise a great film by two of the best.
People lived short hard lives in the Middle Ages, by the time you hit 30 you are probably pretty close to be done!
>>Frankie handed it off to the very people who killed Becket...the royals, now expressed in the Anglican Church which took over Canterbury after Henry VIII. But would you expect otherwise?
He’s an evil little man who hates the Faith.<<
Frankie is a disgrace, no doubt about that, but if I read correctly the TB tunic was loaned, not gifted, to the AC, for a memorial service regarding Becket’s death.
I found some of the acting in Beckett to be a little...fanciful particularly about the way the two guys hung around and partied before the mantle of power was placed on their shoulders...I don’t doubt that they did, but it almost seemed transplanted in some way from the 20th Century! (I even liked it, but it seemed more artificial to me)
Going to watch it again!
‘going a wenching’ prob more related to those guys REAL lives ;)
Heh, “going to a wenching”!
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