Saint Edmund of East Anglia
Also known as
- Edmund the Martyr
- King of the East Angles
- 20 November
- formerly 2 November
- 29 April (translation of relics)
- 25 December on some calendars
Profile
King of East Anglia at age 14, crowned on Christmas Day 855 by BishopSaint Humbert of Elmham. Edmund was a model ruler, concerned with justice for his people and his own spirituality; he spent a year sequestered at Hunstanton learning the Psalter by heart. Following one of a series of armed engagement with invading Danes, he was captured. He was ordered to give his Christianpeople to the pagan invaders; he refused. Martyr.
Born
- beaten, whipped, shot with arrows “until he bristled with them like a hedgehog”, and beheaded at Hoxne, Suffolk, England 20 November 870
- buried at Hoxne
- relics moved to Beodricsworth, England (modern Bury Saint Edmunds (Borough of Saint Edmunds)) in the 915
- relics moved to the Cathedral of Saint Paul in London, England in 1010 ahead of an invading Viking force
- relics returned to Bury Saint Edmunds in 1113
- relics re-enshrined in a new church in a Benedictine monastery built by King Canute in 1020
- relics re-enshrined in a new Norman church in Bury Saint Edmunds in 1095
- following a fire, the relics re-enshrined in a new church in 1198
- following a battle in Lincoln, England in 1217, French troops claim to have taken the relics, but modern testing has disproved this; the real relics may have been hidden, destroyed, looted – we just don’t know, and no authentic relics exist today
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