Kingship and martyrdom are both referenced in a striking statue of St Edmund unveiled at Douai Abbey, Berkshire, as part of the Benedictine community’s 400th anniversary celebrations. The sculptor, Peter Eugene Ball, shows Edmund with the arrows traditionally associated with his martyrdom at the hands of Viking invaders in 869. Above his head is a crown as befits the saint who was King of East Anglia. Edmund is the abbey’s patron and Cardinal Vincent Nichols blessed the statue, whic