Extract XI

The passion of that extraordinary champion of God, Thomas, archbishop of Canterbury, primate of all England and legate of the apostolic see, took place in the year of our Lord 1170, in the fifty-third year of his life, on the fourth day before the kalends of January, on the third day of the week, about the eleventh hour, so that the fifth day of the Lord’s Nativity might, by the will of our same Lord Jesus Christ, be the day of his birth from misery to glory, our same Lord Jesus Christ, to whom, with the Father and Holy Spirit, is honor and glory, virtue, power and dominion, world without end. Amen.1 The closing “our Lord Jesus Christ, to whom, with the Father and Holy Spirit… world without end. Amen” is a common conclusion for prayers or other devotional texts.