Edmund was the patron saint of England until the Middle Ages, when St. George replaced him. In the modern era he is the patron of Douai Abbey (a Benedictine monastery in Reading, England) and of wolves. The king of East Anglia from 855 to 869 and by some accounts an early Christian martyr, Edmund is invoked on behalf of kings and torture victims and for protection againstplague and during pandemics.
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