“For the name of Jesus and the protection of the church I am ready to embrace death.” In this century, the Nobel laureate T.S. Eliot dramatized Thomas Becket’s martyrdom in his play Murder in the Cathedral, and Jean Anouilh’s play Becket was turned into a an Oscar-winning film. In the Middle Ages, Becket’s reputation was even more spectacular. His shrine in the Canterbury Cathedral was for centuries one of the most popular pilgrimage