St Edmund, king of East Anglia and martyr

St Edmund (841–69) was a king of the East Angles who was killed in battle with the Danes. Later accounts record that he was captured, refused to share his Christian kingdom with the heathen invaders, and was killed by being tied to a tree and shot with arrows. He soon became revered as a martyr, and his cult became widespread in the Middle Ages, with its centre at his shrine at Bury St Edmunds Abbey. In Wales he is the patron of Crickhowell church in Powys.


Possible attributes: arrow, bear, cross, crown, sceptre
Iconclass reference: 11H(EDMUND)

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