Anglo-Saxon Saints
The following list of Anglo-Saxon saints contains saints from England in the period before the Norman Conquest of England in 1066. It includes other post-biblical saints who, while not themselves English, were strongly associated with particular religious houses in Anglo-Saxon England, their relics reputedly resting with such houses, for instance.
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Famous quotes containing the words anglo-saxon and/or saints:
“The Anglo-Saxon hive have extirpated Paganism from the greater part of the North American continent; but with it they have likewise extirpated the greater portion of the Red race. Civilization is gradually sweeping from the earth the lingering vestiges of Paganism, and at the same time the shrinking forms of its unhappy worshippers.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“Let the saints be joyful in glory: let them sing aloud upon their beds. Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two-edged sword in their hand; to execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people; to bind their kings with chains and their nobles with fetters of iron; to execute upon them the judgment written.”
—Bible: Hebrew Psalms 149:5-9.