The badges date back to the early Middle Ages and gained popularity in the 12th century after Thomas Becket's death inspired mass pilgrimages to Canterbury Cathedral. Pilgrim badges fell out of ...

The ascetic Archbishop was martyred on this day, December 29, in the year of our Lord 1170, while presiding over daily vespers inside his Canterbury ... the High Middle Ages, St. Thomas was ...

There’s old school hip-hop, and then there’s old, old, old, old school. In this case, don’t think the south Bronx, think Medieval England. With Baba Brinkman’s performance ...

In the later Middle Ages, the wealthy would pay for private chapels to be built where their families could say mass in private. Salisbury Cathedral is one of twenty cathedrals that were built ...