St. Edward The Confessor Medal
This St. Edward The Confessor Medal and Necklace features a pendant with a hand pressed image of St. Edward the Confessor surrounded by the words ‘St. Edward The Confessor Pray for Us’.
Sterling Silver St. Edward The Confessor Medal and Necklace
14KT Gold Filled St. Edward The Confessor Medal and Necklace
14KT Gold St Edward The Confessor Medal
ST. EDWARD
Saint Edward, son of Ethelred the Unready by his second wife, Emma, daughter of Duke Richard I of Normandy, was born about the year 1003, during a most difficult period in English history. He was brought up in exile and educated in the palace of the Duke of Normandy, on account of the Danish occupation of England. Upon the death of King Ethelred, Emma married King Canute, who reigned for nineteen years.
King of England
According to the terms of his marriage settlement with Emma, their son Harthacanute should have succeeded to the throne on the death of the King in 1035. But this prince was in Denmark, and his illegitimate brother Harold, supported by the Danish nobles and the entire population of Northern England, seized and held the kingdom. In 1042, on the restoration of the Anglo-Saxon line, Edward was crowned King of England by Archbishop Edsy.
The most influential nobles, headed by Earl Godwin, soon humbly urged the King to complete the happiness of the nation by taking to himself a royal consort. But Edward had made a vow of virginity in his early youth. After much prayerful deliberation he was inspired to the decision that if he could find a lady “like-minded with himself”, armed with the same heroic virtue, and aiming at the same super natural ideals, he would ask her to share his throne. Two years after his accession to the throne, King Edward asked Edgitha, daughter of the powerful Earl Godwin, a Norman, to be his Queen and to unite herself with him in a purely spiritual companionship.
Edgitha accepted the Saint’s proposal, and on January 23, 1045, amidst the rejoicings of the people, the marriage was solemnized. They led truly virtuous, holy lives. The laws framed by St. Edward were the fruit of his wisdom and endeared him to his people. The only foreign war in which he engaged, and which ended speedily and victoriously, was to restore Malcolm as King of Scotland. St. Edward died at the age of sixty-three on January 5, 1066, having reigned twenty-three years, six months and twenty-seven days. He became a Saint in the midst of courtly life and in a degenerate age.
St. Edward the Confessor Rosary
UPC: 617759546224
Brand: Bliss
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