Todd Drain: St. Thomas Becket - Fairly lengthy biographical essay. With prayers. The Murder of Becket - Excerpt from a novel by Alfred Duggan. Thomas of Canterbury - Includes a digression on "benefit of clergy", and an excerpt from T.S. Eliot's "Murder in the Cathedral". Catholic Encyclopedia: St. Thomas Becket - Biography of this martyr, also known as St. Thomas of Canterbury, where he was archbishop and where he was murdered in 1170. Saint Thomas Becket - Entry for this bishop and martyr, from the book "Lives of Saints," published by John J. Crawley. Catholic Online: St. Thomas Becket - Brief biography. The Life of S. Thomas, Martyr, of Canterbury - A medieval hagiography. From "The Golden Legend," by Jacobus de Voragine. William Caxton translation. Edward Grim's Account of the Murder of Thomas Becket - From Vita S. Thomae, Cantuariensis Archepiscopi et Martyris. Grim was an eyewitness and, in fact, tried to stop the first blow. CatholicSaints.Info: Thomas a Becket - Illustrated, with links, and a reading from a letter by St. Thomas. The Martyrdom of Saint Thomas Becket - Miniature from a fifteenth-century Flemish book of hours.