. Legends of the monastic orders : as represented in the fine arts. the barbarians, bound toa tree, and, after been scourged, shot with arrows, 1 until, asthe old legend expresses it, his body was stuck as full of dartsas is the hedgehogs skin with spines. At length they cut offhis head; and with him suffered his friend and inseparablecompanion, Bishop Humbert,or Nov. so. This happened on the 12th day of December, in the year870, in the twenty-ninth year of his age. When the Christians came forth from their hiding-places,they sought everywhere for the remains of the martyred king:and then appe
. Legends of the monastic orders : as represented in the fine arts. the barbarians, bound toa tree, and, after been scourged, shot with arrows, 1 until, asthe old legend expresses it, his body was stuck as full of dartsas is the hedgehogs skin with spines. At length they cut offhis head; and with him suffered his friend and inseparablecompanion, Bishop Humbert,or Nov. so. This happened on the 12th day of December, in the year870, in the twenty-ninth year of his age. When the Christians came forth from their hiding-places,they sought everywhere for the remains of the martyred king:and then appeared a wonderful and unheard-of prodigy, for theyfound a huge grey wolf of the wood watching over the severedhead. Then they, taking it up boldly and reverently, carriedit to the place of interment, followed by the wolf. And, aftermany years, a great church and monastery was erected overhis remains; and around them rose a town, called, in memoryof him, Bury St. Edmunds, which name it retains to this day. In the old effigies, St. Edmund bears an arrow in his hand,.
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