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EDMUND, SAINT [EDMUND RICE] (d. 1240)

This article appears in Volume V08, Page 947 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ECG-EMS
EDMUND, SAINT [EDMUND RICE] (d. 1240) ,
English
  saint and archbishop of Canterbury, was born at Abingdon, near
Oxford
 , about 1175. His father was a merchant of that town who retired, with his wife's consent, to the monastery of Eynsham, leaving in her hands the education of their family. Her name was Mabel; she was a devout woman who lived an ascetic
life
  and encouraged her children to do the same. Both her daughters took the veil; three of her sons served the
church
  in different capacities. Edmund, her first-born, began his education in a grammar school at
Oxford
 . Of weak
health
  and a contemplative disposition, he showed, from his earliest years, a remarkable
taste
  for learning and religious exercises. He saw visions
white
  still at school, and at the age of twelve took a vow of perpetual chastity in the Virgin's
church
  at Oxford. Later he was sent, with his brother Robert, to study the liberal arts at Paris. His
mother
 's death and family affairs recalled him for a time to England; but. he afterwards graduated at Paris. For six years he lectured in the liberal arts, partly in Paris and partly in Oxford; his career as an Oxford teacher commenced before 1205, f,nd is noteworthy for the fact that he was the first who lectured there on
Aristotle
 . He then returned to Paris for a course of theological studies, and rapidly made himself proficient in that branch of learning.
After spending a year in retirement with the Augustinian canons of Merton (Surrey) he became a theological lecturer in Oxford. In this capacity he gained some reputation, and it is related that his
audience
  were often moved to tears by his eloquence. He spent the fees which he received in charity, and refused to spend upon himself the revenues which he derived from several


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