Saint Edmund
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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
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