Barometer | 26 May 2016

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.
— Church of St Maria Maggiore, Rome: shirt and fragments of bone and brain.
— Most of him was interred in Canterbury cathedral until the shrine was destroyed by Henry VIII in the 1530s. Bones and a skull were discovered in Canterbury cathedral in 1888, but a later study concluded the skull was that of an older man.
— The Victoria & Albert Museum has a casket made in Limoges which was originally believed to contain some bits of St Thomas, but they are now missing.

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