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Title: The saints and missionaries of the Anglo-Saxon era : First (and second) series
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Adams, Daniel Charles Octavius
Subjects: Anglo-Saxons -- Religion Saints, English Great Britain -- Church history
Publisher: Oxford (etc.) : Mowbray & co.
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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one.King Ethelwulf was much attached to his old tutor, 172 The Dark Period. trembled when he thought of his sinfulness. It isrecorded of him that, in his last illness, when hewas near his end, he laid a very strict injunction onthose who were attending him that they should notbury him with the honourable rites due to a Bishop,but as a sinner, outside the Church, in some part ofthe cemetery, where his grave might be trodden onby those who passed through it, and where thedrippings from the eaves of the Church might fallupon it. In accordance with this express command,his body was so buried, and lay thus unworthily fora hundred years or more, but a general feelingprevailed that this indignity ought no longer tobe allowed. The body was taken up from itsdishonourable place by the Bishop of Winchester(S. Ethelwold), and translated with the utmosthonour into the Church. The King himself(Edgar), prepared a most precious shrine for it,and the Cathedral thenceforth was dedicated to.S. Szvithun.
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S. EDMUND5 PA55ION. Page 173. S. Ednmnd. 173 a* ©trmunU. KING AND MARTYR. A.D. 870. Edmund was only fifteen when he was made Kino-of East AngHa, A.D. 855. It is a moot questionwhether he ruled that province independently, orin subjection to Wessex. East Anglia, no doubt,had long lost its independence. Apparently, how-ever, the paramount kingdom (Wessex) was at thisperiod engaged in such a desperate conflict withthe Danes that it could scarcely hold its own againstthem, and the other provinces were left free to actfor themselves. Edmund, to all intents and pur-poses, was an independent King. Sprung fromthe stock of the ancient Saxon Kings, hesucceeded to the throne, we are told, not so much from his election by his subjects, as byhis own natural right. He was a devoutChristian, noted for his piety from his earliestdays. Nature had endowed him with a mostcomely form, which was the more pleasing, be-cause it was set off by the virtues of his mind,and the amiability of his disposition, w

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