Tens of thousands of visitors to Canterbury and its cathedral have Dick Bolton to thank for his expansive knowledge of the ...

Archaeologists have discovered the ruins of a large medieval cathedral in the subterranean citadel of Old Dongola, once the ...

Many people of interest are connected to Worcester Cathedral with some having been buried in the grounds. Among those are St Oswald, William Hamilton (2nd Duke of Hamilton) and Stanley Baldwin. You ...

Canterbury Cathedral's cloisters are worth the visit alone (Image: ... Inside the highlight was the tomb of the Black Prince, which I had seen many photos of but never seen in real life.

Seen as a martyr to the faith, pilgrims came from all over Europe to visit his shrine in Canterbury Cathedral. Coming back to the 21st century, Torin Brown, the new pilgrim officer, first went to ...

There, as Bede also relates, he opened the saint’s tomb to insert more relics and remove soil stained by the martyr’s blood. Constructing churches over the graves of saints is a phenomenon paralleled ...

The following sermon was delivered at evensong on the Feast of St Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral, on Sunday, 29 December 2024 by Fr Robert McCulloch SSC. We come to consider a murder that took ...

Four knights went to Canterbury, threatened Becket, then came back later in the day at Evening Prayer on Dec. 29, 1170, branding Becket a “traitor.” When they could not force him out of the ...

A Canterbury Cathedral spokesman said: “After a break of over 200 years, we’re excited to welcome the historic Christmas market back to the cathedral precincts, and to revive this centuries ...

The style rapidly spread to England (including the famous Canterbury Cathedral and Westminster Abbey), Germany, Spain, Italy, and beyond. ( An 800-year history of Paris's Notre Dame Cathedral.

Students studying a module on Geoffrey Chaucer at the University of Nottingham have been issued a trigger warning for ‘expressions of Christian faith’ in his famous Canterbury Tales.