Posted on 03/19/2011 6:32:55 PM PDT by decimon
A CT scan has been carried out on the mummified skull of a former Archbishop of Canterbury who was beheaded in 1381.
Images from the scan carried out at the West Suffolk Hospital will be used to create a facial likeness of Simon Theobald - "Simon of Sudbury" - who was also once Lord Chancellor of England.
He was killed outside the Tower of London during the Peasants' Revolt.
Axe marks can be seen on the back of the skull, which usually rests at St Gregory's Church in Sudbury.
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"The unusual thing was seeing the head in the hole in the wall in the church.
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(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
Holy rites ping.
What happened to the rest of him? I’m not familiar with his story, was he canonized?
Dunno.
I’m not familiar with his story, was he canonized?
He was decapitated by peasants in a revolt. Don't know how the Church handled it.
If they find Wat Tyler’s remains, then I’ll be impressed.
Yikes! This is what happens when the peasants get unruly.
I keep your skull-bone upon the wall
It hides a nasty hole that’s lyin’ there
So don’t you ask me to give it back
I know you know it doesn’t mean that much to me
I’m not in love, no-no
(It’s because...)
10 cc’s
Wonder about the living person on a waiting list for a CT scan that is still waiting?
Evidently,if he was decapitated, the church didn’t handle it well at all.
Wat's on second.
Pulverized
The Church and the monarchy were so intertwined that all was political. For whatever reason, the peasants really disliked him.
Yeah, but who’s on first?
But his spiritual needs have been well provided.
Angkor.
Who was the other one that was murdered? Becket? Caint remember.
Kind of a hazardous profession they had back then.
Seems that Thomas Becket got his in 1170. Seems also that Archbishop of Canterbury was not always the best job.
I never look back in Angkor.
Angkor management. Good.
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