medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
In fact, in this time and place, rulers were MORE likely than other
folks to receive a cult.
Meg
> I have often wondered why such persons as Edmund King and Martyr and
> Margaret of Scotland are numbered with the Saints.
I hope I am wrong in detecting a rather disagreeable political bias to
this
question! Since when has an anointed and crowned Christian monarch, or
the
crowned consort of a Christian monarch been disqualified "ex officio"
from
being considered for canonisation ?
Excerpts from the Accounts of St Edmund & St Margaret copied from the
on-line Catholic Encyclopedia of 1911. Thus these are the "basic"
traditional accounts which hold good although minor details have been
revised by modern scholarship. I have included some comments in [ ]
BMC
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