Thomas Becket’s Elbow Bone
The Saviour warned about the hypocrisy of the Pharisees, who were outwardly like garnished sepulchres but inwardly were full of dead men’s bones. When we hear of the veneration of a fragment of an elbow bone purportedly belonging to the twelfth-century Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Becket, we ought to realise that the Roman Catholic Church remains essentially unchanged from what it was in the darkness and superstition of the middle ages. The fragment was the centrepiece of a pilgrimage which began in Hungary – where it is normally kept – and was taken to London and Canterbury. Rome would like to regain the Archbishopric of Canterbury (and the control of the Church of England that goes with it) for herself, and events of this nature only help to further her aims.
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