Great blog - we will be celebrating St Edmund’s Day today (although I’m not sure I’m going to have time to make the special St Edmund Suffolk Buns). It is a great pity his fervent attachment to St Edmund didn’t make Samson a more tolerant person, alas. Are there theories about where the monks could have hidden St Edmund at the Dissolution?
There are theories, yes; it's almost certain the body was hidden within the precincts, and there was plague at the time and burials happening, so the most obvious place is a graveyard. The monastic cemetery behind the abbey church and the Charnel House in the Great Churchyard are the most likely spots, in my view
I've been meaning to write in response to this because it really reminded me of a recent account of an encounter with a 'saint' in Vietnam. Except it wasn't a Christian saint, it was the 13th Century general Trần Hưng Đạo who is one of those historical figures revered with the title 'thánh', which is translated as 'saint' and I think also used in Vietnamese Catholicism. This article gave me better understanding why that might be.
Only I can't find the book about Trần Hưng Đạo. I've lost it somewhere.
Great blog - we will be celebrating St Edmund’s Day today (although I’m not sure I’m going to have time to make the special St Edmund Suffolk Buns). It is a great pity his fervent attachment to St Edmund didn’t make Samson a more tolerant person, alas. Are there theories about where the monks could have hidden St Edmund at the Dissolution?
There are theories, yes; it's almost certain the body was hidden within the precincts, and there was plague at the time and burials happening, so the most obvious place is a graveyard. The monastic cemetery behind the abbey church and the Charnel House in the Great Churchyard are the most likely spots, in my view
No chance of permission for a search, I imagine…
I've been meaning to write in response to this because it really reminded me of a recent account of an encounter with a 'saint' in Vietnam. Except it wasn't a Christian saint, it was the 13th Century general Trần Hưng Đạo who is one of those historical figures revered with the title 'thánh', which is translated as 'saint' and I think also used in Vietnamese Catholicism. This article gave me better understanding why that might be.
Only I can't find the book about Trần Hưng Đạo. I've lost it somewhere.