Former place of the Shrine of Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral. Photo May 2003.
This was another one of those times that I had the perfect photo for the day a “Picture of the Week” fell on. The martyrdom of Becket occurred 840 years ago today in 1170 and the Tudor connection is that the shrine was destroyed in 1538 under orders of Henry VIII.
During our trip to England a few months ago we visited Canterbury (beautiful place!) It was amazing (and sad) how many times we saw signs indicating that things had been destroyed under Henry VIII.