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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 ...
Edmund Arrowsmith, SJ (c. 1585 – 28 August 1628) was one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales of the Catholic Church. The main source of information on Arrowsmith is a contemporary account written by an eyewitness and published a short time after his death.
Geoffrey of Wells (Galfridius Fontibus) [note 1] was a mid-12th-century English hagiographer and a canon of Wells Cathedral, whose De Infantia Sancti Edmundi ("The infancy of Saint Edmund"), [1] part of the burgeoning library of 12th-century legendaries concerning Saint Edmund, [2] accounted the royal saint's childhood to have been full of adventure.
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 .
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 visited the shrine of St Cuthbert in Chester-le-Street church, probably on his way to Scotland in 945. He prayed at the shrine and commended himself and his army to the saint. His men gave 60 pounds to the shrine, [q] and Edmund placed two gold bracelets on the saint's body and wrapped two costly pallia graeca (lengths of Greek cloth ...