What is Thomas Becket?
{{Infobox Christian leader |name = Thomas Becket | honorific-prefix = Saint |title = [[Archbishop of Canterbury]] |image = De Grey Hours f.28.v St. Thomas of Canterbury.png |alt = |caption = [[Illustration]] from an English [[Book of hours]] telling an account of the murder, c. 1390, [[National Library of Wales]] | appointed =24 May 1162 | term_start = 3 June 1162 |consecration = 3 June 1162 | ordinated_by = | consecrated_by = [[Henry of Blois]] | term_end = 29 December 1170 |predecessor = [[Theobald of Bec]] |successor = [[Roger de Bailleul]] |ordination = 2 June 1162 |previous_post =[[Archdeacon of Canterbury]] |birth_name = Thomas Becket |birth_date = {{circa}} 1119 |birth_place = [[Cheapside]], London |death_date = {{death date|1170|12|29|df=y}} |death_place = [[Canterbury Cathedral]] |buried = [[Canterbury Cathedral]] |nationality = English |religion = [[Roman Catholic]] |parents ={{unbulleted list|Gilbert Beket|Matilda}} |feast_day = 29 December |venerated = {{unbulleted list|[[Roman Catholic Church]]|[[Anglican Communion]]}} |saint_title = [[Bishop (Catholicism)|Bishop]] and [[Martyr]] |beatified_date = 21 February 1173 |beatified_place = |beatified_by =[[Pope Alexander III]] |canonized_date =21 February 1173 |canonized_place = St Peter's Church in [[Segni]] |canonized_by = [[Pope Alexander III]] |attributes = Sword, Martyrdom, dressed in chancellor's robe and neck chain |patronage = [[Exeter College, Oxford]]; [[Portsmouth]]; [[Arbroath Abbey]]; [[secular clergy]] |shrine =Canterbury Cathedral |suppressed_date = | module = {{Infobox officeholder | embed = yes | office = [[Lord Chancellor]] | term_start =1155 | term_end =1162 | monarch =[[Henry II of England|Henry II]] | predecessor =[[Robert of Ghent]] | successor =[[Geoffrey Ridel (bishop of Ely)|Geoffrey Ridel]] }} }} '''Thomas Becket''' was an [[English people|English]] priest, and [[Archbishop of Canterbury]], who was murdered in [[Canterbury Cathedral]] in 1170. People used to think his