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The many, many resting places of St Thomas à Becket

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28 May 2016

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28 May 2016

9:00 AM

A man in full

A relic said to contain a fragment of St Thomas à Becket’s elbow arrived from Hungary for a tour of London and Kent. Where to go to see some of his other bits:
— St Thomas of Canterbury Catholic church, Burgate Canterbury: fragments of vestment, bone and finger are in a glass case above the altar.

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