The Life and Martyrdom of Saint Thomas Becket: Archbishop of Canterbury, and Legate of the Holy SeeLongman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1859 - 443 pages |
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Page 367 - CHRIST our Lord. Amen. This Prayer following is to be said secretly, after the Sick Persons be departed from the King, at his Pleasure : Almighty God, Ruler and Lord, by whose goodness the blind see, the deaf hear, the dumb speak, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and all sick persons are healed of their infirmities : By whom also alone the gift of healing is given to mankind, and so great a grace, thro...
Page 393 - Rome as the champion of his usurped authority, the King's Majesty thought it expedient to declare to his loving subjects that he was no saint, but rather a rebel and traitor to his Prince, and therefore strictly charged and commanded that he should not be esteemed or called a saint; that all images and pictures of him should be destroyed, the festivals in his honour be abolished, and his name and remembrance be erased out of all books, under pain of his Majesty's indignation and imprisonment at his...
Page 391 - ... which is set to the right of the altar. The church is rather dark, and particularly so where the shrine is placed, and when we went to see it the sun was nearly gone down, and the weather was cloudy; yet I saw that ruby as well as if I had it in my hand ; they say that it was the gift of a king of France.
Page 177 - Remember, moreover, the profession you made to my predecessor at your coronation, and which you deposited in writing upon the altar at Westminster, respecting the rights and liberties of the Church in England. Be pleased also to restore to the see of Canterbury, from which you received your consecration, the rank which it held in the time of your predecessors and mine ; together with all its possessions, its villages, castles, and farms, and whatever else has been taken by violence, either from myself...
Page 359 - Direct my steps according to thy word : and let no iniquity have dominion over me. 134 Redeem me from the calumnies of men : that I may keep thy commandments.
Page 392 - Thomas, sometime Archbishop of Canterbury, had been guilty of rebellion, contumacy, and treason, that his bones should be publicly burnt, to admonish the living of their duty by the punishment of the dead ; and that the offerings which had been made at his shrine, the personal property of the reputed saint, should be forfeited to the crown.
Page 113 - ... of the kingdom whom he shall have summoned for that purpose. And the person elected shall there do homage and fealty to our lord the king, as to his liege lord, of life and limb, and of his earthly honors saving his orders, before he is consecrated.
Page 187 - He who feeds the birds of the air, and clothes the lilies of the field, will provide for me and my fellow-exiles...
Page 392 - A proclamation followed, stating that, 'forasmuch as it now clearly appeared that Thomas Becket had been killed in a riot excited by his own obstinacy and intemperate language, and had been afterwards canonised by the Bishop of Rome as the champion of his usurped authority, the king's majesty thought it expedient to declare to his loving subjects that he was no saint, but rather a rebel and traitor to his prince, and therefore strictly charged and commanded that he should not be esteemed...
Page 378 - Certainly he was a good man; and coming down into the churchyard they began to dread and fear that the ground would not have borne them, and were marvellously aghast, but they supposed that the earth would have swallowed them all quick. And then they knew that they had done amiss. And anon it was known all about, how that he was martyred, and anon after...