St. Edmund

Glad to see religious tolerance is alive and well in the U.K. 🙂

Whereas in the US…..

To be fair to SNAFU, Edmund was religious, and he allegedly encouraged the Danes to shoot arrows into him in the mistaken belief that, like his hero st. Sebastian, he would not be killed. St. sebastian was clubbed to death immediately after he wasn’t killed by arrows, so Edmund perhaps wasn’t wise to use him as a role model.

So to sum up, he was apparently pious and perhaps not the full shilling under the circumstances

However as he is first only briefly mentioned some time after his death in the Anglo Saxon Chronicle*, most information about him was, to be frank, made up by later medieval chroniclers. This led to the cult of St. Edmund that was very strong in the early medieval period

*The Anglo Saxon chronicle is often argued as a great example of history written by the victors with a particular (religious) axe to grind although this has been disputed. Having said that it is a remarkable survivor and undoubtedly has a very strong strand of truth running within it and is the best history we have of the period

Another religious nutter….

Glad to see religious tolerance is alive and well in the U.K. 🙂

Another religious nutter who believed that his god would be enough to prevent against armed terrorists.

If only he had a gun, eh Linc?

Having been murdered by the Danes in defence of his Christianity, he was elevated to matyrdom.

It was 1146 years ago, only seems like last week.

Thought you was talking about the ship, it was parked next to me whilst on the Rangatiri, Falklands, 1982.

Bury St Edmunds is one of our favourite places to visit.
Shall be there next Friday for the Christmas Fair