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Show St. Thomas of Canterbury. '-aH Tho festival of St. Thomas of Can-tcrbury, Can-tcrbury, from being perhaps tho most t popular of saints' days In England, hns now fnllon into completo dosuo-tude, dosuo-tude, and Its revival Is not nadvocated by evon the most fervent or Anglo-Catholics. Anglo-Catholics. It was Henry VIII, who destroyed the Docket tradition. Tho king wns (as always) In need ot money, and tho shrlno of St. Thomns H in Canterbury Cathedral seemed a jl suitable object for legalized loot. So .H In 1538 an order wns issued thnt tho bones of the saint should bo burned 'iil and tho offerings mndo nt his shrlno tho trophies of thrco centuries nnd t a hnlf forfeited to tho crown. Heckot wns to bo deennonized, his Images to bo destroyed and his name erased ' dH ' from the service books. Tho work .i-i-H I wns fnlthfully performed. "Tho nnmo ; of Geta." writes Dean Stnnnloy, "haa """"iH ; not been moro carefully erased by his lH rival brother on ovory monument of the Roman Empire." |