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Restoring our True Patron
St Edmund
This campaign is a quest to re-establish the true identity of the English people and to bring home meaningful patriotism to a nationality unsure of their identity. A part of that identity is England's original patron saint - St Edmund.
St Edmund was the original patron saint of England in an age where flags weren’t used to represent a nation. There were however runes and heraldry that symbolised England at that time which could be incorporated into a flag, something which would owe significance to a less tyrannical and less elitist age. Although the Anglo Saxons were far from liberal and had originally plundered their way across Britain during the 4th century, they had at least developed into an established region of kingdoms that allowed for Celtic neighbours to also develop as kingdoms. St Edmund lived during this time as an East Anglian king who later became a martyr and saint. The campaign is for the renaissance of that period of late Saxon Christianity and not the Heathenism that went generations before it. The late Saxon period became less Germanic and more a period of developing English origins up until the Norman Conquest when a new heraldic era of lions and crosses were introduced.
When you examine history, there is no saint who could realistically represent English people other than St Edmund. If England is to gain its own parliament and national independence in the future, we will surely need a saint to represent the people instead of their ancient conquerors.
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