Edmund

Edmund (born 841/842—died November 20, 869; feast day November 20) was the king of East Anglia (from 855) and, by some accounts, a Christian martyr who was the patron saint of England until he was replaced by St. George in the Middle Ages. In the modern era he is the patron of Douai Abbey (a Benedictine monastery in Reading, England) and of wolves. Edmund is also invoked on behalf of kings and victims of torture,...