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The Curse of Saint Edmund
Status: Unlikely
A group of anti-development activists calling themselves the Knights of Saint Edmund have hit upon an unusual way of stopping a shopping center from being built in their hometown, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk. They're threatening to unleash the ancient Curse of St. Edmund upon the developers. Their website states that:On St Edmund's day, the 20th November 2005, a formal and public cursing ceremony will take place at Bury St Edmunds to once again summon the avenging saint and dread King to punish his 21st century enemies. The ancient curse of St Edmund has not been used for over 500 years, but with the determination of developers to destroy the whole character of a town laid-out almost 1,000 years ago, leaves the good people of Bury St Edmunds with no other option. They will have to summon divine vengeance down upon those hell-bent on wrecking their town, unless Centros Miller Ltd., Miller Group and Debenhams unconditionally withdraw all their plans for redeveloping the cattle-market site by close of business on Friday 18th November 2005.
Victims of the Curse of St. Edmund have supposedly suffered some gruesome misfortunes, such as blindness, madness, syphilis, and being "eaten up inside by worms." However, the town historian of Bury St. Edmunds denies that there is any legend of a curse: "They have no historical authenticity – there is no such thing as the curse of St Edmund." Still, you've got to give them credit for trying. Maybe there's some ancient American curse that can be used to stop Wal-Mart from opening more stores.
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Categories: Paranormal, Places Posted by Alex on Sun Oct 30, 2005 |
Comments (18) |
What curse are you talking about, I thought WalMart IS the curse... my friend has been calling them The Evil Empire for years!!!
Posted by Christopher in Joplin, Missouri on Mon Oct 31, 2005 at 05:09 AM
this sounds like a plot for an episode of Scooby Doo.
Posted by Tom on Mon Oct 31, 2005 at 06:51 AM
How come nobody thought of this before now?!?! That's brilliant!
Posted by Cathy in South Dakota on Mon Oct 31, 2005 at 07:42 AM
Nah, Wal-Mart isn't the Evil Empire... It goes like this....
Antichrist - Bill Gates
Disney - Evil Empire
Barney - Satan's Minion
Posted by Robbity-bobbity-boo in Lorton, VA on Mon Oct 31, 2005 at 08:12 AM
Antichrist - Bill Gates
Disney - Evil Empire
Barney - Satan's Minion
This is very bad theology.
The work of saints is to bless, not to curse.
However, if there's some curse that can stop Walmart from spreading, I'm ready to try it.
Posted by Big Gary in Dallas in Dallas, Texas on Mon Oct 31, 2005 at 09:11 AM
The work of saints is to bless, not to curse.
However, if there's some curse that can stop Walmart from spreading, I'm ready to try it.
Dear Museum of Hoaxes,
I am afraid that it is you who have been hoaxed by the Borough of St Edmundsbury. The 'curse' of St Edmund is a very real phenomena as contemporary accounts testify to the Saint again and again defending his Shrine, Abbey, Rights, Person and Liberties. This has been often accompanied by extreme violence against those who violate his rights.
We have now included the references to the acts of our most glorious King and Martyr on the web-site and include them here for your readers.
References to those killed, maimed and injured by St Edmund
Abbo of Fleury Passio sancti Eadmundi Regis et Martyr (Arnold I 1890: 3-25) c.990
Herman the Deacon
Posted by The Knights of St Edmund in The Liberty of St Edmund on Mon Oct 31, 2005 at 09:56 AM
I am afraid that it is you who have been hoaxed by the Borough of St Edmundsbury. The 'curse' of St Edmund is a very real phenomena as contemporary accounts testify to the Saint again and again defending his Shrine, Abbey, Rights, Person and Liberties. This has been often accompanied by extreme violence against those who violate his rights.
We have now included the references to the acts of our most glorious King and Martyr on the web-site and include them here for your readers.
References to those killed, maimed and injured by St Edmund
Abbo of Fleury Passio sancti Eadmundi Regis et Martyr (Arnold I 1890: 3-25) c.990
Herman the Deacon
Wow. So I'm assuming you wouldn't take it too well if I pointed out that curses don't actually exist and are only superstitions?
Posted by Charybdis in Hell on Mon Oct 31, 2005 at 10:04 AM
Funny, it reads almost like one of those chain letters. "If you don't send this you will DIE! Here's a list of people who died...."
Posted by Razela in Chicago, IL on Mon Oct 31, 2005 at 01:40 PM
Hmmm, so if St. Edmund could zap "those who violate his rights" with "extreme violence," how come he was a martyr?
Posted by Big Gary in Dallas in Dallas, Texas on Mon Oct 31, 2005 at 03:00 PM
I don't know about supermarkets but I'd like that the words to that curse if anyone would be so kind to post them. I have many enemies who could do with a good smiting.
Posted by Carmen in Vancouver on Tue Nov 01, 2005 at 05:36 PM
Dear Guys
I think you should check out the web-site
http://www.knightsofsaintedmund.com/news3.html
again for curse update
Max
Posted by Max in London on Thu Nov 10, 2005 at 07:24 AM
I think you should check out the web-site
http://www.knightsofsaintedmund.com/news3.html
again for curse update
Max
"Hmmm, so if St. Edmund could zap "those who violate his rights" with "extreme violence," how come he was a martyr?"
St Edmund was the last Anglo-Saxon King of East Anglia who fought against the Viking invaders but was captured by them c.869. The Viking's offered Edmund the chance to live if he ruled as their puppet and abandoned his Christian faith. St Edmund refused to do either and so the Viking's tied him to a tree and used him for archery practice before cutting off his head and throwing it into the undergrowth of Hellesdon Wood near Norwich. After the Viking's left St Edmund's people found his head guarded by a Wolf who had protected the saint's head until his followers recovered it. When the head was placed in a coffin with the body it was reported that the head and the body join together miraculously, leaving only a thin red-line as a mark where Edmund had been beheaded.
The body was removed to a small chapel near by before being moved c.918-52 to the town of Bedericsworth where a new timber church was constructed by the people of East Anglia for the shrine of their martyred King. This church was later replaced by a small octagonal stone church by King Cnut c.1020, who staffed it with Benedictine monks and changing the town's name to Bury St Edmunds. Cnut's church was in turn replaced by a massive new St Edmund's Abbey church c.1097 whose ruins can still be seen today. By the end of the 12th century St Edmunds Abbey was one of the most important pilgrimage centres in Europe and thousands flocked to the shrine to of this patron saint of England seeking cures for illnesses or asking for the saint's help. The saint's body was at times of emergency was processed around the town and occasionally displayed so that people could wonder at its miraculous state of preservation.
Saint Edmund died defending the Christian faith and would not renounce his faith, which lead to his death. What would your definition of martyrdom be?
Please note that we have not personally cursed anyone, we have merely called upon the power of Saint Edmund. How he deals with these modern day invaders is entirely up to him...
Brother Geoffrey,
Knight of the Order of Saint Edmund.
Posted by Brother Geoffrey on Tue Nov 22, 2005 at 05:42 AM
St Edmund was the last Anglo-Saxon King of East Anglia who fought against the Viking invaders but was captured by them c.869. The Viking's offered Edmund the chance to live if he ruled as their puppet and abandoned his Christian faith. St Edmund refused to do either and so the Viking's tied him to a tree and used him for archery practice before cutting off his head and throwing it into the undergrowth of Hellesdon Wood near Norwich. After the Viking's left St Edmund's people found his head guarded by a Wolf who had protected the saint's head until his followers recovered it. When the head was placed in a coffin with the body it was reported that the head and the body join together miraculously, leaving only a thin red-line as a mark where Edmund had been beheaded.
The body was removed to a small chapel near by before being moved c.918-52 to the town of Bedericsworth where a new timber church was constructed by the people of East Anglia for the shrine of their martyred King. This church was later replaced by a small octagonal stone church by King Cnut c.1020, who staffed it with Benedictine monks and changing the town's name to Bury St Edmunds. Cnut's church was in turn replaced by a massive new St Edmund's Abbey church c.1097 whose ruins can still be seen today. By the end of the 12th century St Edmunds Abbey was one of the most important pilgrimage centres in Europe and thousands flocked to the shrine to of this patron saint of England seeking cures for illnesses or asking for the saint's help. The saint's body was at times of emergency was processed around the town and occasionally displayed so that people could wonder at its miraculous state of preservation.
Saint Edmund died defending the Christian faith and would not renounce his faith, which lead to his death. What would your definition of martyrdom be?
Please note that we have not personally cursed anyone, we have merely called upon the power of Saint Edmund. How he deals with these modern day invaders is entirely up to him...
Brother Geoffrey,
Knight of the Order of Saint Edmund.
I think that what Big Gary means is that Saint Edmund had all these big nasty powers to smite his enemies. If he was killed, it was because he allowed himself to be by refusing to use said powers against his captors and executioners - suicide, in others words, which is a sin. Therefore, having died by suicide(sin) he can't be a Saint.
Posted by Charybdis in Hell on Tue Nov 22, 2005 at 09:37 AM
Well brother..."He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it
Posted by Penny Lane in Stowupland on Tue Dec 12, 2006 at 07:38 AM
Brother Geoffrey, you havent personally put a curse on any one, but i have,,, try to be careful of any rabbit holes
Posted by Alice in Wonderland on Thu Dec 14, 2006 at 03:04 AM
Well the fat controller would have none of this!
Brother Geoffery surely needs a better range of shops to buy his christmas socks?!
Posted by thomas t.t.e in some railway somewhere on Thu Dec 14, 2006 at 03:05 AM
Brother Geoffery surely needs a better range of shops to buy his christmas socks?!
I hope it worked. Bury's sych a nice town.
Posted by Nona in London on Mon Mar 19, 2007 at 05:57 AM
Posted by iqgvrsiw in zxwxpzeg, nkhehhts on Mon Sep 10, 2007 at 08:13 AM
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