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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

Didn’t someone finally rid Henry II of that ‘troublesome priest’?


44 posted on 12/22/2021 7:13:38 AM PST by SelmaLee (MAGA!)
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To: SelmaLee

...the impious knight... suddenly set upon him and [shaved] off the summit of his crown which the sacred chrism consecrated to God... Then, with another blow received on the head, he remained firm. But with the third the stricken martyr bent his knees and elbows, offering himself as a living sacrifice, saying in a low voice, “For the name of Jesus and the protection of the church I am ready to embrace death.” But the third knight inflicted a grave wound on the fallen one; with this blow... his crown, which was large, separated from his head so that the blood turned white from the brain yet no less did the brain turn red from the blood; it purpled the appearance of the church... The fifth – not a knight but a cleric who had entered with the knights... placed his foot on the neck of the holy priest and precious martyr and (it is horrible to say) scattered the brains with the blood across the floor, exclaiming to the rest, “We can leave this place, knights, he will not get up again.”[17]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Becket


45 posted on 12/22/2021 7:20:50 AM PST by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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