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'''Ymar of Reculver''' (died c. 830) is an Anglo-Saxon saint.

==Background== A Benedictine monk of Reculver, Ymar was killed by Danish warriors.<ref>[https://nominis.cef.fr/contenus/saint/9112/Saint-Ymar.html "Saint Ymar (+ v. 830)", Nominis]</ref> His name may be the source of the toponym Margate.<ref>[http://margate.org.uk/index.php?page=the-name-margate The Mayor and Charter Trustees of Margate]</ref> A legend states that he had a dying wish to be buried in St Johns parish church in Margate. Sometime before 1407 the body of St Ymar was brought from Reculver, where he had been a monk, and buried in {{ill|St John the Baptist's church, Margate|qid=Q17530207}}.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.hereshistorykent.org.uk/DisplayArticle.cfm?placeID=290&categoryID=4&placename=Margate | title = Here's History Kent | access-date = 20 May 2013 | archive-date = 15 May 2014 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140515005640/http://www.hereshistorykent.org.uk/DisplayArticle.cfm?placeID=290&categoryID=4&placename=Margate | url-status = dead }}</ref> Tradition insists that an old stone coffin lid at that church is his.<ref name="ccotton">{{cite book | last = Cotton | first = Charles | year = 1929 | title = The Saxon Cathedral at Canterbury and The Saxon Saints Buried Therein | publisher = Manchester University Press | page = 74}}</ref><ref>[https://archive.org/stream/archaeologiacan22socigoog#page/n208/mode/2up/search/Ymar Kent Archaeological Society, "The Church of St. John the Baptist, Margate", p.72, 1902]</ref>

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Category:830 deaths Category:Kentish saints Category:People from the City of Canterbury Category:English Christian monks Category:9th-century Christian saints Category:Year of birth unknown