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Your Calendar, your historic list of the Earth's worthies, won't do--not they, but others, are the people who have brought Humanity thus far.

I don't deny that there are great souls among them; Beckets, and Hugh Grostetes, and Elizabeths of Hungary.

But you are the last people to praise them, for you don't understand them.

Thierry honours Thomas a Becket more than all Canonisations and worshippers do, because he does see where the man's true greatness lay, and you don't.