Word: becket
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is an exhibition in the Memorial Room of the Widener Library this week of Punch's Pocket Books, Thomas a Becket Books of the Month. Kate Green way's Almanac and Cruikshank's Comic Almanac...
There will be an exhibition in the Memorial Room of the Widener Library this week of Punch's Pocket Books, Thomas a Becket's Books of the Mouth, Kate Greenway's Almanac and Cruikshank's Comic Almanac...
...bears the title "Primate of England," but he is not the head of the English Church. That post is held by His Grace of Canterbury, whose title is "Primate of all England." Between the two Archbishops a traditional feud exists. Sometimes, as in the days of St. Thomas Becket, 800 years ago, it is bitter, even bloody. Usually the feud is one of genial jest. As a rule, Canterbury crowns the King, although sometimes York has done it. Rarely, if ever, has York succeeded to the See of Canterbury. Rarely, if ever, have Their Graces of Canterbury succeeded in disciplining...
...denominations is militaristic. If the armor of Mars is black, and if the wings of the Angel of Peace are white, it can be said that the words of Presbyterians, Baptists, Methodists, Congregationalists are gray. Thus they record progress since the days, 800 years ago, when Saint Thomas a Becket was continually calling upon Pope Alexander III to unsheathe the sword of St. Peter...
When Thomas Becket, Arehbishop of Canterbury, flashed his episcopal cross on the earls and barons of the Great Council in defiance of the mightiest king in the Western world there arose a storm of discussion whose interest has survived the dust of the chronicles by which it was recorded. It was a case of clash of convictions. When Edmund Burke arose to impeach Warren Hastings on the charge of high crimes and misdemeanors there was no talk of the pedantry and dry formalism of debate; against the fire of intense personal conviction and the crusading zeal of a diligent investigator...