What Matilda won for her darling.

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In preparation for the feastofThe Assumption of Our Lady.

The holy death of the Blessed Virgin Mary.+How a mother prepared for the great feasts of Our Lady.
The Martyrdom of St. Thomas of Canterbury29 December, 1170.
From his cradle was St Thomas à Becket taught to have devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary. His mother, Matilda, used in her hallowed playfulness of heart, to put her boy, whilst he was yet a child, into a scale, and bestow his weight in food, clothing and money, on the poor that she might thereby win for her darling the prayers and protection of the blessed Mary.She taught her sondevotion to the Blessed Virginthat his life and acts would be protected by HerWhom he fervently invoked andheld as his hope after Christ.