Dedications to Saints in Medieval Scotland

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ST/EW/193

Edward the Confessor

Gender
Male
Floruit (period)
None
Floruit date range
1003 - 1066
Description
King of the English, known as ‘the Confessor’ after his canonization in 1161. The cult of St Edward the Confessor was a product substantially of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Some ‘miraculous’ cures seem to have occurred at his tomb shortly after his burial. In 1160, Laurence, abbot of Westminster, supported by Henry II, and the English hierarchy, petitioned Pope Alexander III for Edward's canonization; the pope issued the necessary bull on 7 February 1161. Edward was to be inscribed in the catalogue of saints and numbered among the holy confessors. See Frank Barlow, ODNB, 'Edward [St Edward; known as Edward the Confessor]'.
Categories
major type minor type confidence notes
None King 100 None
None Confessor 100 None
ethnicity
ethnicity description confidence notes
Anglo-Saxon None 100 None
feast days
month day fixed? description notes
1 5 yes St Edward the Confessor None
10 13 yes Translation of St Edward the Confessor None
symbolic attributes
attribute notes
no attributes given
specialist associations
association notes
no specialist associations