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Reflection on Canterbury Cathedral and community


Shrine of St Thomas Becket

Shrine of St Thomas Becket

The blogger a Clerk of Oxford has posted a fascinating reflection on Canterbury Cathedral, its saints and the life of the community there before the Reformation. She writes: If you're in the UK, you may have been watching the recent BBC series of programmes about Canterbury Cathedral. If you haven't been, I recommend it - the series is on iplayer here. I grew up near Canterbury and know the cathedral well - and I study its medieval history, as you will have gathered if you've been reading this blog any length of time - but this series has nonetheless been full of surprises, showing a friendly side of the place which is usually kept hidden from the public behind high and forbidding walls.

Away from the cathedral, the highlight for me was seeing the boys' choir visit a shrine to St Thomas Becket in Norway, continuing testament to the great popularity of St Thomas in Scandinavia - in the Middle Ages the English and Scandinavian churches had very close links, and after his murder Becket rapidly became a popular saint in the north.

To read on see:

http://aclerkofoxford.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/some-thoughts-on-canterbury-cathedral.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed:+AClerkOfOxford+(A+Clerk+of+Oxford)

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