San Tommaso di Canterbury


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This is known as "The Martyrs' Picture", and features St Thomas Becket to the left and St Edmund, King of East Anglia and Martyr to the right. Blood from Christ's wounds is shown falling onto a map of the British Isles, and from this blood fire is springing up. This ties in with the College motto, held by a cherub: Ignem veni mittere in terram (I have come to bring fire to the earth).