Reformed Anglicans

13 October.   1662 Book of Common Prayer:   Translation of King Edward the Confessor Binski, Paul.   “The Cult of St. Edward the Confessor.” History Today   ( Volume: 55 Issue: 11   2005 ).   http://www.historytoday.com/paul-binski/cult-st-edward-confessor .   Accessed 27 May 2014.   Edward the Confessor, the last truly Anglo-Saxon King, was remembered with such affection he became a sainted embodiment of a pacific and idealistic form of kingship under Henry III. Paul Binski asks why. EDVVARD REX. Edward the Confessor enthroned, opening scene of the Bayeux Tapestry Edward the Confessor was born between 1002 and 1005; he came to the English throne in 1042 and died early in 1066. The year 2005 has been declared to be the thousandth anniversary of his birth, and has been celebrated both in his birthplace of Islip, Oxfordshire, and in Westminster Abbey, his great foundation. Some have looked at the inexorable rise of the Danish House of...

13 October.   1662 Book of Common Prayer:   Translation of King Edward the Confessor No author. “St. Edward the Confessor.” Westminster Abbey . N.d. http://www.westminster-abbey.org/worship/st-edward-the-confessor .    Accessed 27 May 2014.    St Edward the Confessor The Abbey is a place of pilgrimage.  For many centuries pilgrims have come to venerate the relics of St Edward the Confessor, King of England 1042–1066, and re-founder of Westminster Abbey who is buried at the heart of the Abbey Church. A confessor is a saint who shows particular courage in publicly bearing witness to their faith in Christ, without being a martyr who gives their life for Christ.  Not long after his death Edward was already seen to have been a man of particular holiness, a kind of crowned monk.  He was declared a saint in 1161, and was especially venerated by many subsequent kings. He rebuilt and greatly enriched Westminster Abbey, turning it into...

13 October.   1662 Book of Common Prayer:   Translation of King Edward the Confessor http://www.eskimo.com/~lhowell/bcp1662/info/cal_1871/october.html Translation of King Edward the Confessor (reigned 1041-1066). -- The commemoration is of the translation of his relics from the original shrine in his own Abbey of Westminster (erected by the Conqueror), to a more magnificent shrine in the Abbey under the auspices of Archbishop Becket, on Oct. 13th, 1163. Edward the Confessor was regarded as the patron saint of England, until superseded by St. George in the 13th century. -- October 13th.