Monday, November 19, 2018

SAINT EDMUND OF EAST ANGLIA

         Saint Edmund of East Anglia

Also known as
  • Edmund the Martyr
  • King of the East Angles
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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.
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