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St. Humbert of East Anglia

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St. Humbert of East Anglia

Bishop of the East Angles, Martyr

Humbert was a bishop of the East Angles associated with St. Edmund. Butler’s brief notice remembers his part in Edmund’s coronation and his later martyrdom.

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The life below remains the existing Butler-based reading, with its edition citation. The profile preserves the feast date and source title already listed in the library. Additional personal dates and historical details are shown only when separately documented.

King associated with his ministry: Edmund of East Anglia
Butler records Humbert’s part in the coronation and the shared November 20 commemoration.

Butler sourceAlban Butler, The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints, Volume XI (November), Thomas Richardson and Son, Derby, for the Catholic Book Society, 1846; November 20, “St Humbert, Bishop of the East Angles, Martyr,” p. 425.

Butler’s Lives of the Saints (1846)Alban Butler, The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints, Volume XI (November), Thomas Richardson and Son, Derby, for the Catholic Book Society, 1846; November 20, “St Humbert, Bishop of the East Angles, Martyr,” p. 425.

The reading

ⓘ Butler source

Alban Butler, The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints, Volume XI (November), Thomas Richardson and Son, Derby, for the Catholic Book Society, 1846; November 20, “St Humbert, Bishop of the East Angles, Martyr,” p. 425.

Humbert is remembered as a bishop of the East Angles. Butler associates him closely with St. Edmund and records that he crowned the king on Christmas Day in 855.

The same brief notice says that Humbert was killed by the Danes at about the time of Edmund’s martyrdom. It does not supply a separate account of his trial or the manner of his death.

Butler records that earlier English Christians honoured him among the martyrs on the same day as Edmund, November 20. This modest notice preserves the bishop’s place beside the king without adding a fuller biography that the cited passage does not provide.

Historical note

An original Novena Regina reading adapted and summarized from the cited pre-1962 sources. This is not a transcription of Butler’s words.

Butler supplies only a brief notice. It places Humbert’s death about the same time as Edmund’s; it does not establish that they died together in the same place or manner.

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