St Thomas Becket Day: 29 December

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Sunday 29 December is the 854th anniversary of Thomas Becket’s murder during vespers in Canterbury Cathedral.

On Sunday the saint will be remembered at the 5.30pm evensong which is being streamed live via the Canterbury Cathedral website.

The clergy move to the Martyrdom during the service for readings from T.S Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral and the banging close of the cloister door.

The preacher will be Father Robert McCulloch.

Sung Vespers of St Thomas is in the Cathedral Crypt at 8pm.

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