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In 2006, BBC Radio Suffolk radio presenter Mark Murphy and David Ruffley, the Member of Parliament for Bury St Edmunds, failed in their campaign to reinstate Edmund as the patron saint of England. [ 83 ] [ note 7 ] In 2013, BBC News reported a new campaign launched by Murphy and the brewer Greene King , which is based in Bury St Edmunds, to ...
Edmund Campion, SJ (25 January 1540 – 1 December 1581) was an English Jesuit priest and martyr.While conducting an underground ministry in officially Anglican England, Campion was arrested by priest hunters.
Saint Edmund the Martyr (d. 869), king of East Anglia who was venerated as a martyr saint soon after his death at the hands of Vikings; Saint Edmund Arrowsmith (1585–1628), Jesuit, one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales; Saint Edmund Campion (1540–1581), English Jesuit priest and martyr; Saint Edmund Gennings (1567–1591), English ...
John the Baptist was Richard's patron saint, and Saint Edward and Saint Edmund had both been English kings. Richard had a special devotion to Edmund, who with St George is one of the patron saints of England. The Dunstable Swan Jewel, a livery badge in ronde bosse enamel, about 1400. British Museum
Edmund of Abingdon (also known as Edmund Rich, St Edmund of Canterbury, Edmund of Pontigny, French: St Edme; c. 1174 – 1240) was an English Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Canterbury. He became a respected lecturer in mathematics , dialectics and theology at the Universities of Paris and Oxford , promoting the study of Aristotle .
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Portsmouth (Latin: Dioecesis Portus Magni)is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church that covers the Channel Islands as well as parts of England (Hampshire, the Isle of Wight and parts of Berkshire, Dorset and Oxfordshire). The episcopal see is St John's Cathedral in Portsmouth and is headed by the Bishop of Portsmouth.
St Edmund, King and Martyr, is an Anglican church in Lombard Street, in the City of London, dedicated to St Edmund the Martyr. [1] From 2001 it housed the London Centre for Spirituality, renamed the London Centre for Spiritual Direction, [2] but is still a consecrated church. Since 2019, Imprint Church [3] organises regular worship inside of ...
This list of royal saints and martyrs enumerates Christian monarchs, other royalty, and nobility who have been beatified or canonized, or who are otherwise venerated as or conventionally given the appellation of "saint" or "martyr". Their names are in English and, where known, in their own language.