Jan 082009
![[Saint Edmund of East Anglia]](http://saints.sqpn.com/wp-content/gallery/saint-edmund-of-east-anglia/saint-edmund-of-east-anglia-00.jpg "135kb jpg photograph of a Saint Edmund of East Anglia stained glass window, the clerestory of Our Lady and the English Martyrs church, Cambridge, England; swiped with permission from the flickr account of Brother Lawrence Lew, OP")
Also known as
- Edmund the Martyr
- King of the East Angles
- 20 November
- formerly 2 November
Profile
King of East Anglia at age 14, crowned on Christmas Day 855 by Bishop 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 Christian people 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 (modern Saint Edmundsbury) in the 10th century
- arrow
- king tied to a tree and shot with arrows
- wolf
- bearded king with a sword and arrow
- man with his severed head between the paws of a wolf
- sword
Additional Information
- Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
- Catholic Encyclopedia, by G E Phillips
- Christian Biographies, by James E Keifer
- Golden Legend
- Katherine Rabenstein
- Lives of Saint Edmund and Saint Fremund
- Lives of the Saints, by Father Alban Butler
- Martyrdom of Saint Edmund, King of East Anglia, by Abbo of Fleury
- New Catholic Dictionary
- Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints
- Wikipedia
MLA Citation
- “Saint Edmund of East Anglia”. Saints.SQPN.com. 22 November 2012. Web. 19 May 2013. <http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-edmund-of-east-anglia/>