Martyrdom of St. Edmund, Pickering, N.Yorkshire "This very fine (and, like all those at Pickering, very large) painting was made, like ...

Now this portion of the life of St. Edmund is considered a legend and is in fact not even mentioned in the Catholic Encyclopedia. This is a ...

This is by far my favorite image of St. Edmund martyr from the famous "Wilton Diptych" This post will focus on this beautiful and ...

The Story of the martyrdom of King. St. Edmund: In the year 869, the Danes who had wintered at York, marched through Mercia into East Anglia...

Here is a medieval drawing of St. Edmund. Edmund was king of East Anglia before England was united as one sovereign country. At the time, th...