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"But simple as the tale is there is hardly better historic training for a man than to set him frankly in the streets of a quiet little town like Bury St. Edmunds, and bid him work out the history of the men who lived and died there. In the quiet, quaintly-named streets, in the town-mead and the market-place, in the Lord’s mill beside the stream, in the ruffed and future brasses of its burghers in the church, lies the real life of England and Englishmen, this life of their home and their trade, their ceaseless, sober struggle with oppression, their steady, unwearied battle for self-government. It is just in the pettiness of its details, in its common place incidents, in the want of marked features and striking events, that the real lesson of the whole story lies. For two centuries this little town of Bury St. Edmunds was winning Liberty to itself, and yet we hardly note as we pass from one little step to another little step how surely that Liberty was being won."

John Richard Green (1837-1883), grandfather of British social and cultural history.

Green, J. R., (1876), Stray studies from England and Italy, Macmillan & Co., London p.218-9

Saint Edmund

01/11//2006

The Knights of St Edmund lead the way: while the BBC and Borough Council screw-up..again!!!

The Knight's of St Edmund are justly proud of their central role in promoting the person, cult and town of St Edmund. Less than a year ago we were vilified and mocked for even suggesting that St Edmund was more important for Bury St Edmunds than a shopping scheme.

How times have changed! Not due to any labour of ours we must add, but as a direct result of the agency of our most blessed Saint and Holy Martyr St Edmund. Now the BBC has finally woken up to the fact that one of the most important Saints in England is still in our town. They are also supporting our campaign to re-establish the cult and shrine of St Edmund at Bury St Edmunds. Even the Borough of St Edmundsbury Council, whose spokesman wrote to the local paper a little over a year stating they would burn us at the stake, has done a 180 degree about-face.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/suffolk/5381956.stm

Despite it all the good news, the BBC have 'done an Andrew Gilligan' and got their facts spectacularly wrong, not once but twice.
  1. The first church dedicated to St George was not built in Doncaster in c.1061 and St George did not become patron saint of England at that time.
St George's Priory, Thetford, started as a Benedictine cell of monks in the reign of King Cnut of England (c.1016-1035). In c.1160 it became a Benedictine nunnery but remained a sub-house of the Abbey of St Edmund's at Bury. St George's was built c.1020 on the orders of King Cnut as a memorial to the large numbers of Christian dead, both Viking and Anglo-Saxon, killed at the nearby Battle of Ringmere on 5th May 1010. Therefore, the Priory of St George in Thetford existed 40 years before the church in Doncaster did!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/suffolk/content/articles/2006/09/21/st_edmund_2006_feature.shtml
  1. The obsession with a single national saint of the English would have been a concept completely alien before c.1066.
New Labour's neo-soviet model of joined-up-government would have been truly offensive to a free-born and independently minded Anglo-Saxon. This is because one-size-fits-all saints, like off-the-peg shopping centres, simply do not work. The reason why local saints such as St Germaine, St Felix, St Fursa, St Walstan and St Botolph were so important in East Anglia was because they were local saints for local people, not official or state-sponsored cults. For example, the first church built at Bury St Edmund to house St Edmund's shrine was not built by the church authorities but by all the people of East Anglia.
Before the Norman Conquest England was unofficially divided between two 'patron' saints, an eastern saint: St Edmund, and a western saint: St Aethelbert. Like St Edmund (d. 869) Aethelbert was a youthful King of East Anglia. St Aethelbert was brutally murdered c.793 on the orders of King Offa of Mercia and he was buried at Hereford Cathedral, where his shrine became a place of miracles.

Like St Edmund, Aethelbert was brutally murdered by his political enemies for standing up to those who sort to take-over his Kingdom in order to rob and enslave his people. The original cult centre in East Anglia for St Aethelbert was at Hoxne, but this was destroyed during the Danish occupation. Later Hoxne was set up by the Bishop of Norwich as a rival cult centre dedicated not to Aethelbert, but St Edmund, in a dodgy attempt to get some of the glory and pilgrims donations that were flooding into Bury St Edmunds Abbey.

So why didn't the Mayor of Bury St Edmunds, Borough Councilors, Town Councilors, Centros Miller's PR man Mr Bryson, the Bury Free Press, nor the Borough's unofficial historian Mr Paine, correct these errors by the BBC?

The answer is simple - they know nothing about St Edmund, they couldn't care less about the history or heritage of Bury St Edmund, but they all love free publicity.

However, it remains disappointing that the BBC still refuse to investigate the Cattle-market development scandal, Centros Miller's Scottish links with New Labour, the failure by the Borough to follow PPG 15 & 16, the role of Centros Miller's Mr Laker and his 'champions', the role of Johnston Press PLC's newspaper titles in promoting Centros Miller's developments, the Manor House Museum scandal and so forth. At least after the Andrew Gilligan fiasco you would think that someone at the BBC would at least check their facts first!

Disinformation campaigns or false information about St Edmund, his person, his cult, his Knights or his town will never be tolerated and any attempt to do so will be rigorously resisted!

DEUS LO VOLT!

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