“Thomas Becket: Murder and the Making of a Saint” The British Museum, Bloomsbury, London May 20-August 22, 2021, £17 Review by Charlotte Gauthier Few English saints have captured the popular imagination as thoroughly or enduringly as Thomas Becket, the medieval Archbishop of Canterbury and staunch defender of ecclesiastical privilege whose murder at the hands of four of King … [Read more...] about Museum Review: Thomas Becket, Rock-Star Saint
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Torn Apart
The Feast of Mary Magdalene By Sarah Cornwell A Reading from the Gospel of Mark 5:1-20 1 They came to the other side of the lake, to the country of the Gerasenes. 2 And when he had stepped out of the boat, immediately a man out of the tombs with an unclean spirit met him. 3 He lived among the tombs; and no one could restrain him any more, even with a chain; 4 for he had … [Read more...] about Torn Apart