Feast day: November 20
St. Edmund the Martyr
A young Christian king of East Anglia captured by a Danish army who, refusing to renounce his faith or rule under heathen overlords, was tied to a tree, shot with arrows, and beheaded.
For centuries before St. George, he was a patron saint of England, and the great abbey town of Bury St Edmunds grew up around his shrine.
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