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SAINT [EDMUND RICE] EDMUND (d. 1240)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 947 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SAINT [See also:EDMUND See also:RICE] EDMUND (d. 1240)  , See also:English See also:saint and See also:archbishop of See also:Canterbury, was See also:born at See also:Abingdon, near See also:Oxford, about 1175 . His See also:father was a See also:merchant of that See also:town who retired, with his wife's consent, to the monastery of Eynsham, leaving in her hands the See also:education of their See also:family . Her name was Mabel; she was a devout woman who lived an ascetic See also:life and encouraged her See also:children to do the same . Both her daughters took the See also:veil; three of her sons served the See also:church in different capacities . See also:Edmund, her first-born, began his education in a See also:grammar school at Oxford . Of weak See also:health and a contemplative disposition, he showed, from his earliest years, a remarkable See also:taste for learning and religious exercises . He saw visions See also:white still at school, and at the See also:age of twelve took a See also:vow of perpetual chastity in the Virgin's church at Oxford . Later he was sent, with his See also:brother See also:Robert, to study the liberal arts at See also:Paris . His See also:mother's See also:death and family affairs recalled him for a See also:time to See also: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 See also:Aristotle . He then returned to Paris for a course of theological studies, and rapidly made himself proficient in that See also:branch of learning . After spending a See also:year in retirement with the Augustinian canons of Merton (See also:Surrey) he became a theological lecturer in Oxford .

In this capacity he gained some reputation, and it is related that his See also:

audience were often moved to tears by his eloquence .

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