Editing Edmund of Abingdon (section)

==Religious Congregation of the Society of St Edmund==
{{Main|Society of Saint Edmund}}

Edmund's life inspired the formation of the [[Society of Saint Edmund]] at [[Pontigny]], France, in 1843 by [[Jean Baptiste Muard]] and [[Pierre Boyer]].<ref>{{cite web| title=Our History| url=http://www.sse.org/history.html| publisher=The Edmundites| access-date=2013-01-04}}</ref> The Society intended to keep Edmund's memory and life alive by conducting parish missions in the archdiocese of Sens, so as to revitalize the faith of the people who had become alienated from the Church. Members of the Society, based in Pontigny, fled to the United States in 1889 after widespread [[anticlericalism]] in France.  The Society of Saint Edmund settled in Winooski Park, Vermont and in 1904 established [[Saint Michael's College]] where the deeds and values of Edmund's life continue through the college mission.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.vermontcatholic.org/vermont/society-of-st-edmund-elects-new-superior-general/|title=Society of St. Edmund elects new superior general|first=Cori|last=Urban|date=15 July 2018}}</ref> Today members of the Society of Saint Edmund devote themselves to parochial work in the [[Diocese of Burlington]], Vermont, ministry to the African American community through the Edmundite Missions in [[Selma, Alabama]], to higher education at Saint Michael's College, and retreat ministry at Saint Edmund's Retreat (Enders Island) in Connecticut as well as [[Saint Anne's Shrine]] in Vermont.<ref>[https://www.saintannesshrine.org/history "Saint Anne's Shrine", Isle La Motte, Vermont]</ref>