Festa di Santu Tummasu Becket is honored today in Sicily, and for both Catholics & Protestants across the globe. Saint Thomas Becket is best known in two works of writing, in the play that became a movie with Richard Burton as “Becket” in the self-titled film from 1964 with Peter OToole as the murderous king, and centuries earlier in “The Canterbury Tales” (“I racconti di Canterbury”) by Geoffrey Chaucer that students in several nations still must read. In the Sicilian city of Marsala (thats within the Province of Trapani) is the Cathedral of Marsala (Duomo di Marsala) thats dedicated solely to Saint Thomas Becket. On the walls of the Cathedral of Monreale (within the Province of Palermo) is a mosaic thats of Saint Thomas Becket. In the city of Mottola, which is in a city that was part of The Kingdom of Two Sicilies, Saint Thomas Becket is the patron-saint of that city. By the way, although Mottola is within the Region of Puglia, many still speak a dialect of Sicilian thats known as dialettu salentinu. More specifically about Saint Thomas Becket, while he is most associated with British Culture, he was not British in the way that we know this nationality today, as Becket was Norman that had family in France & Sicily that he had visited that involved intrigue, and twists of history that are best read elsewhere, particularly the bestofsicily/mag/art288.htm webpage that has superb article about Beckets many connections to Sicily. Nevertheless, Saint Thomas Becket was born on The Feast of Saint Thomas the Apostle, which is how he was named, to his parents, that were both Normans, on December 21, 1118, and was murdered on December 29, 1170 thats quickly became The Feast of Thomas of Canterbury, as he was the Archbishop of Canterbury. Saint Thomas Becket is also remembered in America in {The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty} that describes itself as a non-profit, public interest law firm defending the freedom of religion of people of all faiths. QUOTE: Clients have included Buddhists, Christians, Hindus, Jews, Muslims, Sikhs, and Zoroastrians. [The Founder of the non-profit] named The Becket Fund after Thomas Becket, who was murdered in 1170 by the knights of King Henry II of England, after a possible misunderstanding and a long series of altercations and events between the English monarch and state, the papacy, other clergy and Becket. Written & Researched by Benny Anthony of Kansas City, Missouri (USA)
Posted on: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 12:52:56 +0000
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