THOMAS

a celebrated Archbishop of Oenenenys who tried to make the cl independent of the civil powers. Refusing his consent to the constitutions of the Council of Clarendon, he was driven by Henry II. into exile. On reconciliation with the king he returned to England and was soon afterwards a a inated by four knights in Canterbury Cathedral (1170). He was canonised by. the Pope, and regarded by the peas in general as a martyred saint. to the reformation many you sands annually made pilgrimages to his shrine, and many nuracles were supposed to be wrought there. ABELARD, [s. 33]