Summary

Ælfric St. Edmund, King and Martyr

Save yourself by fleeing, or by so submitting to Hinguar." Then Edmund, full of bravery as he was, said, "This I want and wish with all my heart, that I do not live after my beloved thanes in their beds, with their wives and children, have all been slain by these murderous Vikings. Nor was it ever that I might flee, but I would rather die if my country needs such. Almighty God knows that I will not turn from his worship, nor from his true love, whether I live or die."
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Ælfric St. Edmund, King and Martyr

Some struck with mighty blows the hasp, some filed around with their files, some dug under the door with a spade, some with ladder wished to unlock the window, but they labored in vain, and wretchedly fared so, in that the holy saint miraculously bound them, each as they stood struggling with their tools, that none of them that crime might perpetrate, nor did they thence move, but stood so until morning.
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Ælfric St. Edmund, King and Martyr

Conclusion Many wonders we have heard publicly spoken about the holy Edmund, that we will not set down here, as everyone knows them. In this saint is manifest, and in other such saints, that Almighty God, He who keeps Edmund's body whole, may raise people again on Judgement Day, uncorrupted by the earth, although they come from the earth. Worthy is that place for that honorable saint, that the people may worship and may staff it well with God's pure servants, because the saint is more glorious than men may understand.
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