This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 Excerpt: ...group of followers, they went to' Canterbury and killed the archbishop with their swords, on the very steps of the altar in his own cathedral. A tremendous outcry went up from all Europe. The king was sorry for his hasty remark and shut himself up for several days, refusing to see any one or to eat food of any kind. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 Excerpt: ...group of followers, they went to' Canterbury and killed the archbishop with their swords, on the very steps of the altar in his own cathedral. A tremendous outcry went up from all Europe. The king was sorry for his hasty remark and shut himself up for several days, refusing to see any one or to eat food of any kind. The Pope also was shocked and went into seclusion for a time. The people mourned for Thomas as a martyr to the cause of the church and he was immediately put upon the list of English saints. He was buried at Canterbury and thousands of pious people made pilgrimages each year to worship at his tomb. The great poet, Chaucer, in his "Canterbury Tales," written two hundred years after the murder of Becket, relates in an Pilgrims Going To Canterbury interesting way the various stories which different pilgrims told while on their way to Canterbury. But if people went by thousands to worship at the shrine of St. Thomas, how much stronger would be the yearnings of pious Christians to kneel and pray at the tomb of the Savior, himself. All through the Middle Ages, such pilgrimages were made to the Holy Land. Sometimes the pilgrim went by himself and sometimes great crowds went together. In 1064, seven thousand people, led by an archbishop, went to Jerusalem in a single company. The Crusades. For several centuries, Syria and the Holy Land were in the possession of the Arabs. These men were comparatively mild and had some sort of respect for holy things and sacred places. As a consequence, the pilgrims to the Holy Land were well treated and were allowed to come and go in peace; but in the eleventh century a great change took place. The wild Turks from Asia overran Syria. These men were somewhat like Attila and his terrible Huns and had no respect ...
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