Today is the Feast of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1170.

It is not in time that my death shall be known;

It is out of time that my decision is taken

If you call that decision

To which my whole being gives entire consent.

I give my life

To the Law of God above the Law of Man.

[From T. S. Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral, 1935.]