Home Discussion Topics Dictionary Almanac

Signup Login

Saint Edmund

Discussion

Ask a question about 'Saint Edmund'

Start a new discussion about 'Saint Edmund'

Answer questions from other users

Full Discussion Forum

Encyclopedia

Saint Edmund may refer to:

Saint Edmund the Martyr
Edmund the Martyr
St Edmund the Martyr was a king of East Anglia, an Anglo-Saxon kingdom which today includes the English counties of Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire.D'Evelyn, Charlotte, and Mill, Anna J., , 1956. Reprinted 1967...

(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
Edmund Arrowsmith
Saint Edmund Arrowsmith SJ is one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales. The main source of information on St Edmund is a contemporary account written by an eyewitness and published a short time after his death...

(1585-1628), Jesuit, one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales
Saint Edmund Campion
Edmund Campion
Saint Edmund Campion, S.J. was an English Roman Catholic martyr and Jesuit priest. While conducting an underground ministry in officially Protestant England, Campion was arrested by priest hunters. Convicted of high treason by a kangaroo court, he was hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn...

(1540–1581), English Jesuit priest and martyr
Saint Edmund Rich
Edmund Rich
Edmund Rich was a 13th century Archbishop of Canterbury in England...

, otherwise Edmund of Abingdon
Saint Edmund Ignatius Rice
Edmund Ignatius Rice
Blessed Edmund Ignatius Rice , was a Roman Catholic missionary and educationalist. Edmund was the founder of two orders of religious brothers: the Congregation of Christian Brothers and the Presentation Brothers....

(1762-1844), founder of the Congregation of Christian Brothers