Saint edmund of canterbury biography
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St. Edmundof Abingdon (1175-1240)
Born: 20th November 1175 at Abingdon, Berkshire
Archbishop of Canterbury
Died: 16th November 1240 at Soissy, France
Edmund 'Rich' was born in Abingdon on 20th November, the feast of St.
Edmund, the King of East Anglia, about the year 1175.
Saint edmund of canterbury biography
He was the son of a local merchant named Edward or Reynold Rich. Of his three brothers, Robert supposedly wrote one of his biographies. His two sisters, Margaret and Alice, became Prioresses of Catesby in Northamptonshire.
Edmund's boyhood seems to have been spent in Abingdon and Oxford, and he was probably first educated at the abbey in the former town. His mother Mabel enticed him by little allurements to practice extreme asceticism like herself, to wear sackcloth, to fast on Friday, to refuse food on Sunday and other feast-days until he had sung the whole psalter.
The family was apparently in easy circumstances, as the father's surname suggests (this is actually an epithet only and should