Canterbury for my religion or culture class... who knows.

Last Wednesday the 9th our group took a field trip to Canterbury, specifically the Canterbury Cathedral. We split our 40 girls up into groups of ten and learned all about the Cathedral, well Thomas Becket and the Cathedral.



When we first walked into the Cathedral the Archbishop came over the loud speaker and asked us to join him in prayer. On a religious stand point, I kept thinking yes this is a beautiful prayer, and yes it does have good things to pray for, but I am so thankful for our Mormon concept of prayer and the relationship it gives us with our Heavenly Father, to be able to personally pray to Him.





When expanding the Cathedral, the church ran out of money to finish. The monks decided to ask the wealthy families of the church in England to donate money and in return they would place their family emblem on the ceiling. Prince of Wales emblem is up on the ceiling in the blue.





The story of Thomas Becket. What we learned for most of our trip is the story of Thomas Becket and his impact on the Church of England. For those of you who don't know, here is my quick story; I might leave a few things out because I am just going off what we saw at the cathedral. King Henry chose Thomas Becket as the Archbishop of Canterbury because of their close family relationship and believed that with Becket as the Archbishop Becket would favor the king and his wishes. The monks did not like Becket when he was put in as the Archbishop because he was not a monk before receiving this calling. Once as the Archbishop Becket sided with the monks. When King Henry found his out he was very upset and Becket ended up fleeing to France to escape. He ended up coming back to England. One night in 1170 the King was going off on a rampage about Thomas Becket and said something like I want to kill him, something along those lines. Then 4 guards over heard and came to the cathedral and killed him. This was a very abbreviated story and most of what I learned it how he died. Where the guards stormed in, where he was, etc. It was really cool/crazy to be standing were it all took place. I loved it, and our tour guide Brian for teaching us everything!