Veneration
| Saint Edmund the Martyr | |
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Edmund being crowned by angels, from a 13th century manuscript. |
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| Major shrine | Bury St Edmunds, destroyed |
| Feast | 20 November |
| Attributes | crowned and robed as a king; holding a scepter, orb, arrow, or a sword |
| Patronage | kings, pandemics, the Roman Catholic diocese of East Anglia, Douai Abbey |
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“It is evident, from their method of propagation, that a couple of cats, in fifty years, would stock a whole kingdom; and if that religious veneration were still paid them, it would, in twenty more, not only be easier in Egypt to find a god than a man, which Petronius says was the case in some parts of Italy; but the gods must at last entirely starve the men, and leave themselves neither priests nor votaries remaining.”
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