As they passed by a small cylinder enclosing a withered hand — COVID’s aftermath means they still cannot touch or kiss the reliquary — each worshipper prayed a silent prayer. The hand ...

Edmund the Martyr was crowned King of East Anglia in 855 or 856 and was venerated as a Martyr Saint soon after his death at the hands of Danish Vikings on 20th November 869. This date remains St ...

St. Edmund, King and Martyr: Changing Images of a Medieval Saint, edited by Anthony Bale, was published in August, 2009. Enter your email address and select any of the newsletters below.

In 1539, on the orders of Henry VIII, the Benedictine Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds was destroyed ... the remains of England’s Anglo-Saxon martyr-king. Edmund was born about 840; he was to die ...