Thomas of Canterbury has very particular significance for the Venerable English College in Rome, the Roman Catholic Seminary originally founded in the 16th century in the properties of the medieval pilgrim hospice. The archbishop came to have physical, spiritual and political associations with the institution as a result of his exile from England and royally sanctioned murder, so much so that the English and Welsh national church in the papal city is now dedicated to him. In the context of the Protestant Reformation and the Dissolution of the Monasteries in Britain, students and exiled priests studying at the Roman college looked to Thomas’s example of resistance to secular interference, reinforced by means of relics and depictions of Thomas in a highly charged pictorial scheme in the college church.

坎特伯雷的托马斯（Thomas of Canterbury）对罗马的尊贵英语学院具有特殊意义，该学院最初成立于16世纪，是中世纪朝圣者临终关怀组织的罗马天主教神学院。由于大主教从英格兰流放到英国并受到王室批准的谋杀，大主教开始与该机构建立了身体，精神和政治联系，以至于罗马教皇城市的英国和威尔士国民教会现在都献给了他。在英国的新教改革和修道院解散的背景下，在罗马大学学习的学生和流亡教士们看了托马斯的抵抗世俗干扰的例子，并通过对托马斯的文物和描写来加强了对这本书的强烈指控。在大学教堂里。