newly-canonized

Updated: May 21, 2025

And from that time until the translation of the relics in 1220, this was the most sacred spot in the cathedral, and it was known, down to Reformation times, as "Becket's tomb." Hither came the earliest pilgrims in the first rush of enthusiasm for the newly-canonized martyr.

Hartley Withers - The Cathedral Church of Canterbury [2nd ed.] : A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Archiepiscopal See