Apple-fruited Passion-flower. _Passiflora maliformis._
Dedicated to _St. Elizabeth_.
~November 20.~
_St. Edmund_, King and Martyr, A. D. 870. _St. Humbert_, Bp. of the
East Angles, A. D. 855. _St. Felix_, of Valois, A. D. 1212. _St.
Bernward_, Bp., A. D. 1021. _St. Masentia_, 7th Cent.
~St. Edmund,~
_King and Martyr._
This English king and saint is in the church of England calendar and
almanacs. St. Edmund was king of East Anglia, which took its name from a
people called the Angles, who landed on the eastern coast of Britain,
under twelve chiefs, the survivor of whom, Uffa, assumed the title of
king of the East Angles. This kingdom contained Norfolk and Suffolk,
with part of Cambridgeshire. The chief towns were Norwich, Thetford,
Ely, and Cambridge. In 867, the Danes landed in East Anglia, and after
ravaging different parts of the island, and continuing some time in
Northumberland, returned into East Anglia, committing, in their route,
the most horrid barbarities. Edmund the king opposed them; but his army
was defeated at Thetford, and the king being taken prisoner, fell a
miserable victim to their barbarity, for they tied him to a tree, as a
butt, or mark, and then shot him to death with arrows. The place where
Edmund was interred had the name of St. Edmund’s Bury, but is now
generally called Bury. Canute the Great built a stately church over his
grave, and greatly enlarged the town.
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