Gold and Hair shirts
Becket wore a hair shirt under his gold and crimson, and there is much to be said for the combination; for Becket got the benefit of the hair shirt while the people in the street got the benefit of the crimson and gold.
-GK Chesterton, Orthodoxy.
-GK Chesterton, Orthodoxy.
- Anonymous | 9:33 PM GMT
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I couldn't believe it when I found out that St Thomas a Beckett had been voted one of the ten worst Englishmen to have ever lived - alongside people like Oswald Mosley no less!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4663032.stm
"Faith of our fathers, Mary’s prayers
Shall win our country back to Thee;
And through the truth that comes from God,
England shall then indeed be free."
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