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May 10 · King, Martyr

St. Fremund

St. Fremund

Traditional feast

May 10
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

Not verified yet

Represents

King
Martyr

Early life

The book says little or nothing about early life. This is how the account begins.

Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 0 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.

What they represent

How they teach us to live

Drawn from themes in the original account

Keep their day. Remember them on May 10 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Baring-Gould’s sources: Additions to Usuardus and Anglican Martyrologies. Authority: — A legend given by Capgrave.] S. Fremund is said to have been a prince, the son of Ofifa, king of the Mercians (d. 794), and to have fought against the Danes. He was murdered by Oswy, an officer of his father, perhaps at the instigation of Cenwulf. But there is no certainty about this. Fremund is not mentioned by any chroniclers; Offa was succeeded by his son Egfrid, who only reigned a year and a hundred and forty days, and was succeeded by Kenulf, or Cenwulf.

Feast days

Feast: May 10

Nine days · Free

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One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from St. Fremund's story, and a nudge to keep going.

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Sources & notes

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Credits

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain.

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain in the United States. Reproduced unedited, except for short bracketed notes in grey that we added to explain names and terms (“S.” is the old abbreviation for Saint). Some history and judgments reflect 19th-century scholarship.