Murder of Thomas Becket at Christmas!
The murder of Thomas Becket was celebrated on the fifth day of Christmas to remember his killing in the year 1170 as Tony McMahon discovers

The murder of Thomas Becket was celebrated on the fifth day of Christmas to remember his killing in the year 1170 as Tony McMahon discovers
The murder of Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury, scandalised Europe and created a popular saint.
Medieval killer priests were men of the cloth who had no qualms about getting into armour and clubbing their enemies to death in battle
During the Crusades, European Jews faced the horror of murder, massacre, being robbed, and expelled from their home country. Tony McMahon investigates.
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