Wednesday 20 November 2019 was the 1,150th Anniversary of the Martyrdom of St Edmund, to whom our church was originally dedicated.
Edmund was crowned King of East Anglia at Bures in Essex on Christmas Day 855. He died on 20th November 869 when he refused to give up his Christian faith and so was tied to a tree and shot full of arrows before being beheaded.
Edmund is the patron of Kings, pandemics, the Roman Catholic diocese of East Anglia, Douai Abbey, wolves, torture victims, protection from the plague.
