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  1. King of East Anglia from 855. In 870 he was
  2. defeated and captured by the Danes at Hoxne,
  3. Suffolk, and martyred on refusing to renounce
  4. Christianity. He was canonized and his shrine
  5. at Bury St Edmunds became a place of
  6. pilgrimage.
  7.