Free online events are marking 1000 years of the Abbey of St Edmund in Bury St Edmunds - Credit: West Suffolk Council How did Edmund go from being a defeated regional king to the patron saint of England - and why did a Danish monarch decide to build an abbey in his honour? These are the themes behind the latest in a series of free, online talks to mark 1,000 years since the founding of the Abbey of St Edmund in Bury St Edmunds. The statue of St Edmund in front of the Abbey West Front in Bury St Edmunds