From the Lesson at Matins:
He Began With the Things of Religion
Edward greatly loved God, and was gentle-hearted, and free from any lust for power. He took the kingdom in the year 1042, being then about forty years old. Thereupon he set himself to repair the breaches which wars had made, and began with the things of God, being desirous that religion should rise from the low estate whereinto it had fallen.
Father of Orphans
Because of the abundance of his charity he was styled everywhere The Father of Orphans and Parent of the Poor, and he was never happier than when he had spent upon the needy the whole of his kingly treasures.
The Friendship of Saint John
He had a wonderful love toward John the Evangelist, so that he was used never to refuse anything for the which he was asked in that Saint's name. Concerning this a marvelous tale is wont to be told. It is said that the Evangelist appeared to him once while in tattered raiment, and in his own name asked him for an alms. It befell that the King had no money, wherefore he took a ring from off his finger and gifted him therewith.
Repose in the Lord
Not long afterward the Evangelist sent the same ring back to him by a pilgrim, with a message concerning his death, which was then at hand. The King therefore commanded that prayers should be made for him, and then fell blessedly asleep in the Lord, upon the very day which had been foretold to him by the Evangelist, that is to say, on January 5th, in 1066.
Westminster Abbey
In 1161 he was canonized, and on October 13th, two years later, his body, which was said to have been found incorrupt, was by Saint Thomas Becket translated to Westminster Abbey, where it is still enshrined behind the high altar.
His Excellency, the Bishop of the Diocese of Tulsa, Oklahoma has given
Father Mark a special mandate to live in adoration before the Most
Blessed Sacrament, in a spirit of thanksgiving and intercession, that he
might make reparation before the Eucharistic Face of Jesus for all his
brothers in Holy Orders. At the same time, he is available to the
priests and deacons of the Diocese for spiritual and sacramental
support in their pursuit of holiness.
A further note on St Edward: I have a video of a rather lukewarm Anglican author doing a tour of Westminster Abbey (and parts are actually quite good). When he arrives at the tomb of the Confessor, he first notes that until the late 1700s (i.e. 2 centuries after Henry VIII), dust from around the tomb was swept up at night and shipped off to Portugal for the benefit of the faithful there.
My favorite part though is when he recounts why the tomb itself was not desecrated by the Protestants, although the exterior decoration was removed. He states that (I paraphrase slightly): "It was not that Edward was a saint, but that he was a king, you see, and there's a kind of trade union of kings: you hurt one, you hurt them all..."