Catholic Mass in Anglicanism's Home Cathedral Taps UK Vogue for Saints' Relics

Catholic Mass in Anglicanism's home cathedral taps UK vogue for saints' relics

LONDON (RNS) — King Henry VIII and his iconoclast-in-chief, Thomas Cromwell, would be stunned: Nearly 500 years after the English Reformation, Canterbury Cathedral, the mother church of the Protestant Church of England, will be given over to a Roman Catholic Mass, celebrated by the pope’s own representative in the country in honor of the martyr Thomas Becket, who died in the cathedral in 1170. Not least among the historical oddities of the day w…

7 July: CATHOLIC Mass at Canterbury Cathedral for the Feast of the Translation of the Relics of St. Thomas Beckett – | Fr. Z's Blog

On 7 July there will be a CATHOLIC Mass in the (stolen) Canterbury Cathedral in honor of the Feast of the Translation of the Relics of St. Thomas Beckett. My correspondent alerted me about this along with his comment: There’s … Read More →

Historic: Catholic Mass to be celebrated in Canterbury Cathedral - Deacon Greg Kandra

Details, from RNS:  King Henry VIII and his iconoclast-in-chief, Thomas Cromwell, would be stunned: Nearly 500 years after the English Reformation, Canterbury Cathedral, the mother church of the Protestant Church of England, will be given over to a Roman Catholic Mass, celebrated by the pope’s own representative in the country in honor of the martyr Thomas Becket, who died in the cathedral in 1170. Not least among the historical oddities of the …