In the summer of 1998 I saw a film at the Heritage Center (formerly
the Poor Priests' Hospital). I believe the film was a brief history
of Canterbury, including a segment on Becket. It showed the lice
leaving the body as it cooled, but I don't recall wings or haloes.
I wonder if the reactions Carolyn describes provoked some editing?
Or perhaps it was a different film shown at another museum?
Regards,
Jim Kerbaugh
Carolyn Schriber wrote:
>
> Several years ago I viewed a short film on Becket's martyrdom; it was
> available for viewing at a museum in Canterbury, but not connected to
> the cathedral itself. In the scene in which the local women lay out
> Becket's body for burial, they discover the hair underwear. Fleas
> emerge from the fabric, walk to the edge of the table, sprout tiny wings
> and haloes and flutter off like so many tiny angels. There wasn't a dry
> eye in the room -- some tears from the pious women watching, others from
> those of us who were convulsed with attempts not to laugh.
>
> Carolyn Schriber
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