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Thomas Becket: Martyrdom at Christmas

For nearly seven years, I worked at the Church of England’s Council for Christian Unity, as part of the staff of the Archbishops’ Council....

Postcard from Norwich

It has been one of the axioms of contemporary culture in Britain that cathedrals and museums have exchanged places. Cathedrals, which were once the...

Pilgrimage through the Snow

Québécois faithful braved subzero, snowy weather to come to the Notre-Dame de Québec Basilica-Cathedral on Jan. 3 to pray before a first-class relic.

Remembering Gregory

Display of Pope Gregory’s crozier coincides with the Primates’ Meeting next week.

On stealing relics

Why steal a relic? Relic theft was common in the Middle Ages, for a variety of reasons. But even in the later Middle Ages, when the sale of relics was increasingly common, profit was only one of them.

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