 After his death , Æthelberht was canonised by the Church . He became the subject of a series of vitae that date from the eleventh century and he was venerated in religious cults in both East Anglia and at Hereford . The Anglo @-@ Saxon church of the episcopal estate at Hoxne was one of several dedicated to Æthelberht in Suffolk , a possible indication of the existence of a religious cult devoted to the saintly king . Only three dedications for Æthelberht are near where he died - Marden , Hereford Cathedral and Littledean - the other eleven being in Norfolk or Suffolk . Lawrence Butler has argued that this unusual pattern may be explained by the existence of a royal cult in East Anglia , which represented a " revival of Christianity after the Danish settlement by commemorating a politically ' safe ' and <unk> distant local ruler " . 
