(slideshow)The assassination of St. Thomas Becket: The British Museum marks its 850th anniversary

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The British Museum is making this the year of St. Thomas Becket, 850 years after his assassination.

This 15th-century image of St. Thomas Becket being struck with a large sword is made of alabaster, a material for which English craftsmen were famed.

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