Sunday, October 13, 2013

St Edward the Confessor...

...has his feast-day today. He was our last Saxon king before the Norman Conquest. He reigned at a difficult time - I only realised, via a sermon yesterday evening at Westminster Cathedral, that when he came to the throne, it was only  a few decades since the Archbishop of Canterbury (St Elphege) had been martyred by the pagan Danes at Greenwich, and the Danes (Vikings) ruled large parts of England for a long time...

Anyone who thinks we live in uniquely difficult times today knows little of history...

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