The Translation of St Thomas Becket falls on 7 July marking the moving of the saint’s body from Canterbury Cathedral crypt to the shrine in the main church in 1220. This was always a much better attended occasion than the anniversary of his martyrdom on 29 December.

Monday 6 July

Cathedral: 5.30pm First Evensong of St Thomas Translation.

St Dunstan’s Church: 7.30pm Annual Thomas More Commemoration Service marking his execution day. Lecture by Court of Appeal Judge Sir Mark Warby called ‘More and more: law and the Charterhouse in London’. (St Dunstan’s is the last church on the PW before the West Gate. St Thomas More like St Thomas Becket defied a King Henry.)

Tuesday 7 July Translation

Cathedral: 8am Holy Communion in Trinity Chapel.

Cathedral: 5.30pm Solemn Evensong & procession to Shrine (live stream via Cathedral website).

Cathedral : 7.30pm RC Mass (live stream).

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Canterbury’s Medieval Pageant and Family Trail on Saturday 4 July includes a Medieval Music Programme.