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Martyr

Ragener

A saint of the West, honored by the undivided Church.

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Era
9th century
Order
Martyrs

Life

Ragener (also Ragner) was, according to medieval sources, a Christian martyr of the 9th century, killed by the Vikings together with his uncle, Edmund the Martyr, king of East Anglia. He was buried at the church of Saint Peter in Northampton.

The sources at hand say little about him, only that he died together with Edmund, who fell around 869 in the fight with the Danes. They give neither the day of his remembrance nor any details of the cult. He is honored as a saint in England, in the tradition of the undivided Church; no Orthodox synodal canonization is known, and the information is vague.