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had taken place: when two crippled men were brought close to the bier and those carrying it lowered the body to their level, the cripples were immediately restored to full health. This procession and events were re-enacted 1000 years later in 1981. Reports from
Shaftesbury of many other miracles said
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Vague imaginings of its castle, its three mints, its magnificent apsidal Abbey, the chief glory of south Wessex, its twelve churches, its shrines, chantries, hospitals, its gabled freestone mansions—all now ruthlessly swept away—throw the visitor, even against his will, into a pensive
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instructed the bishops to raise his brother's tomb from the ground and place it into a more fitting place. The bishops moved the relics to a casket, placed in the holy place of the saints together with other holy relics. This elevation of the relics of Edward took place on 20 June 1001.
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praised the abbey residents' "steadfast preservation of their purity" and the fervency and effectiveness of their prayers. In 1093, shortly before his election as
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to have been obtained through Edward's intercession helped establish the abbey as a place of
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features stonework pieces excavated from the abbey's ruins, including
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founded the convent in about 888 and installed his daughter
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conjectured "if the abbess of Shaftesbury and the abbot of
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Religious buildings and structures completed in the 880s
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Christian monasteries established in the 9th century
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his lands were forfeit, and the lands passed to the
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503:, supposed by some historians to be the author
479:A novel based on the dissolution of the Abbey,
436:Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
420:Thomas Arundell, 1st Baron Arundell of Wardour
998:"The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography"
333:to administer the abbey’s Wiltshire estates.
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590:Alice de Lavyngton (elected 1302; died 1315)
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970:A History of the County of Dorset, vol. 2
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593:Margaret Aucher (elected 1315, died 1329)
411:to pass up on behalf of King Henry VIII.
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605:Joan Formage (elected 1362, died 1394)
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254:, the wife of Alfred's grandson, King
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279:Ælfhere, Ealdorman of Mercia
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639:Alice Gibbes (died 1496)
522:, first abbess about 888
239:Shaftesbury Abbey, angel
974:Victoria County History
528:Herleva (966; died 982)
487:was published in 2018.
33:Shaftesbury Abbey ruins
1097:Keen, L., ed. (1999).
1013:10.1093/ref:odnb/52797
818:"St Edward the Martyr"
742:Williams, Ann (2004).
481:The Butcher's Daughter
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1158:Monasteries in Dorset
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335:William of Malmesbury
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681:The Abbey site today
485:Victoria Glendinning
347:Anselm of Canterbury
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