Thomas Becket
Defender of the Church
Father John S. Hogan
Except where noted, the Scripture citations used in this work are taken from the Revised Standard Version of the Bible — Second Catholic Edition (Ignatius Edition), copyright © 1965, 1966, 2006 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Quotations from The Correspondence of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1162-1170, Volumes 1 & 2, translated by Anne Duggan, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2000. Reproduced with permission of the Licensor through PLSclear.
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Contents
Part III: The Church’s Servant
23. The Council at Westminster
28. The Archbishop Goes to War