Thomas à Becket

[ tom-uhs uh bek-it ]

noun

1. Saint. Becket, Saint Thomas à.

Example Sentences

The plaque says the St Thomas à Becket Anglican Church, known as simply "the English church" for many years, would have been destroyed without her - after she hid its artwork to save it from damage, smothered fires as they started.

From BBC

The Ampulla was made for Charles II's coronation, but its shape harks back to an earlier version and a legend that the Virgin Mary appeared to St Thomas a Becket in the 12th Century and gave him a golden eagle from which future kings of England would be anointed.

From BBC

A series of stories told by a group of travellers, in Chaucer's Middle English, takes readers on a pilgrimage to the shrine of Saint Thomas à Becket in Canterbury.

From Salon

Mould admitted Tuesday that he “had sexual contact with a minor on one occasion” while parochial vicar at St. Thomas à Becket Church in Reston from 1992 to 1995, according to the bishop’s letter, which was posted on the diocese’s website.

From Washington Post

“The Golden Legend,” a thirteenth-century account of the lives of saints, attributed healing powers to the water used to wash the bloodstained clothes of Thomas à Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury, who was murdered in 1170.

From The New Yorker