Event: Appointment/consecration/elevation/ordination of bishop, Death/dying, Monastic life, converting to/joining/oblation, Relics-incorrupt preservation/placing in reliquary/requesting/translating, TonsuringEdmund 26.episcopacy

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Description On the death of Bishop Ealdhun 6 the clerics discussed the choice of their future ruler, and Edmund 26 said in his usual joking manner: 'Take me and make me bishop'. They all, as if God had inspired them, snatched the words out of his mouth. Aghast and repenting what he had said, he was made monk; then they asked Cnut 3 [other manuscript says Æthelred 32, which is wrong], who was king at that time, to make him bishop. Under Edmund 26's rule the church's prosperity was much advanced. The holy body [of Cuthbert 1] was taken to Durham.
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