Tomás Becket

Tomás Becket was a 12th-century English cleric who served as Archbishop of Canterbury and became a martyr after being assassinated in 1170 due to his conflicts with King Henry II over the rights and privileges of the Church. His life and death have made him a symbol of the struggle for the independence of the Church from the state, and he is commemorated as a saint in the Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion.