Edmund of Abingdon, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Edmund of Abingdon

Archbishop of Canterbury and saint

Date of Birth: 20-Nov-1174

Place of Birth: Abingdon-on-Thames, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 16-Nov-1240

Profession: Catholic priest

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Saint Edmund of Abingdon (circa 1174 – 1240) was a 13th-century Archbishop of Canterbury in England.
Of English birth, he became a respected lecturer in mathematics, dialectics and theology at the Universities of Paris and Oxford, promoting the study of Aristotle.
Having already an unsought reputation as an ascetic, he was ordained a priest, took a doctorate in divinity and soon became known not only for his lectures on theology but as a popular preacher, spending long years travelling within England, and engaging in 1227 preaching the sixth crusade.
Obliged to accept an appointment as Archbishop of Canterbury by Pope Gregory IX, he combined a gentle personal temperament with a strong public stature and severity towards King Henry III in defence of Magna Carta and in general of good civil and Church government and justice.
He also worked for strict observance in monastic life and negotiated peace with Llywelyn the Great.
His policies earned him hostility and jealousy from the king, and opposition from several monasteries and from the clergy of Canterbury Cathedral.
He died in France at the beginning of a journey to Rome in 1240.
He was canonised in 1246.