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Definition of Saint Edward the Confessor

1. Noun. Son of Ethelred the Unready; King of England from 1042 to 1066; he founded Westminster Abbey where he was eventually buried (1003-1066).

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Literary usage of Saint Edward the Confessor

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Historical Lectures and Addresses by Mandell Creighton (1903)
"Saint Edward the Confessor.1 WE are met to-day to commemorate the founder of this great building, so closely connected with all ..."

2. Historical Lectures and Addresses by Mandell Creighton (1904)
"Saint Edward the Confessor.1 WE are met to-day to commemorate the founder of this great building, so closely connected with all the history of our race and ..."

3. History of the Viceroys of Ireland: With Notices of the Castle of Dublin and by John Thomas Gilbert (1865)
"... bearing a golden cross, on an azure ground, surrounded by five silver birds, said to have been the arms of his patron saint, Edward the Confessor. ..."

4. The Liturgical Year by Prosper Guéranger (1903)
"Saint Edward the Confessor. KING OF ENGLAND. THIS glorious Saint was like a beautiful lily, crowning the ancient branch of the kings of Wessex. ..."

5. Lacunar Basilicae Sancti Macarii, Aberdonensis: The Heraldic Ceiling of the by William Duguid Geddes, Peter Duguid (1888)
"These are the arms which were assigned to Saint Edward the Confessor long after his death. Richard II., "having chosen King Edward the Confessor for his ..."

6. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the ...by Charles George Herbermann by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"CUTHBERT'S COLLEGE, USHAW, DURHAM, ENGLAND: Edmund the Martyr, Saint; Edward the Confessor, Saint; Edward the Martyr, Saint; Edwin, Saint; Egbert, Saint; ..."

7. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The order is said to have been founded in honor of the Holy Trinity, the Virgin Mary, Saint Edward the Confessor and Saint George of Cappadocia, ..."

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