Thomas: Shelley MydansOn a dark December afternoon, in the rising wind and rain of an unprecedented storm, four knights of the court of King Henry II rode into Canterbury in search of the archbishop. They left him dead in the blackness of his own cathedral, and the people of the town came to dip their hands in his blood. Within hours miracles were performed in his name, and soon he was proclaimed a Holy Martyr of the Church. His tomb became a center of pilgrimage for