13th OCTOBER: ST EDWARD, KING AND CONFESSOR
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1. Edward, called the Confessor, nephew of St Edward, king and Martyr, was he last of the Anglo-Saxon kings. When he was ten years old, the Danes, who were then devastating England #StEdwardTheConfessor #Oct13 #October #Saints
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1. Edward, called the Confessor, nephew of St Edward, king and Martyr, was he last of the Anglo-Saxon kings. When he was ten years old, the Danes, who were then devastating England #StEdwardTheConfessor #Oct13 #October #Saints
2. sought him out to kill him. He was forced to flee into exile. The tyrants were eventually overthrown, and Edward was recalled to his country. There he devoted himself to removing all traces of havoc wrought by the enemy, beginning with the churches of God.
He was famous
He was famous
3. for gift of prophecy and foresaw much of England’s future history by divine inspiration. He had a very special devotion to St John the Evangelist, and on the day predicted by that saint, he died a most holy death, namely on the Nones of January, in the year of salvation 1066.
PRAYER:
O God, who crowned blessed King Edward with the glory of eternity, grant us, we beseech you, so to venerate him on earth that we may be worthy to reign with him in heaven. Through our Lord…
(From: An Approved English Translation of the Breviarium Romanum, London, 1964)
O God, who crowned blessed King Edward with the glory of eternity, grant us, we beseech you, so to venerate him on earth that we may be worthy to reign with him in heaven. Through our Lord…
(From: An Approved English Translation of the Breviarium Romanum, London, 1964)
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