St. Thomas Beckett

Title: St. Thomas Beckett
Description: This is a picture of a colored pencil drawing taken from a room in the rectory of St. Thomas of Canterbury. In it, St. Thomas is laying on the ground with a broken and bloodstained sword on his neck, representing his martyrdom. Instead of a body is a stylized version of the name Beckett in all red, which is another name for this saint. To the top left of him is the name St. Thomas and to the top right is a crowd of people with weapons. In the bottom right is a short bit of notation, reading "61/72, JAZ, 70". Around St. Thomas in faint text is a quote near his head with blood spilling onto it. It reads "I give my life to the law of God above the law of man those who do not the same how should they know what I do? How should you know what I do?" and an attribution to T.S. Eliot's "Murder in the Cathedral"
Contributor: Mort Skafish
Date: 3 April 2024
Language: English
Rights: Item courtesy of Mort Skafish
Is Part Of: St. Thomas of Canterbury
Source: N/A
City: Chicago
Denomination: en Roman Catholic Church
Neighborhood: en Uptown