biography
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Edmund, St
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originally Edmund Rich
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| lived:
| (1170–1240)
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| biography:
| Clergyman, born in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, SC England, UK. He studied and taught at Oxford and Paris, became famous as a preacher, and was commissioned by the pope to preach the Sixth Crusade throughout England (c.1227). As Archbishop of Canterbury (1234), he became the spokesman of the national party against Henry III, defending Church rights and speaking out against the king's continental policies. Revered for his gentleness, austerity, and purity, he was canonized in 1247; feast day 16 November. |
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