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Vor einem Tag · The city of St. Alban now comprises the whole of the parish of St. Alban, and extends into the parishes of St. Peter, St. Michael, St. Stephen, and Sandridge. The bounds of the borough were first recorded in 1327, (fn. 1) although as early as 1142 its limits appear to have been defined by a ditch, (fn. 2) afterwards called Tonmans ...
Vor 2 Tagen · Feast Day: June 20 – CNA. St. Alban was the first Christian martyr in Britain during the early 4th century. He is the patron saint of converts and torture victims. Although he was not a man of faith, St. Alban was very hospitable and compassionate. As a soldier, he sheltered a persecuted priest, Amphibalus, during a time when Christians were ...
Vor 22 Stunden · St Alban was the first British martyr. Almost nothing about him is known for certain – even the date of his martyrdom is unknown, and historians’ estimates vary between 209 and 314 A.D. (more recent historical research suggests the mid-3rd century). Alban was a Roman who lived in Verulamium and sheltered a fleeing Christian during a ...
Vor 5 Tagen · 110. ST. ALBANS. (O.S. 6 in. xxxiv. S.E.) Ecclesiastical (1). The Abbey Church of St. Alban, on high ground on the S.W. side of the town, is a large cruciform building, and one of the longest cathedrals in England. The oldest parts are built chiefly of flint rubble, Roman bricks and Barnack stone, taken from the ruins of Verulamium ...
Vor 5 Tagen · BOROUGH. We learn from the Domesday Book (1086) that there were in the town of St. Albans four Frenchmen ( francigeni ) and sixteen villeins, with thirteen bordars and forty-six burgesses who held ½ hide of land.
Vor 22 Stunden · Albanum egregium fecunda Britannia profert. (“Lo! fruitful Britain vaunts great Alban’s name.”) (“Carmina”, VII, iii, 155). His feast is still kept as of old, on 22 June, and it is celebrated throughout England as a greater double. That of St. Amphibalus is not now observed, but it seems formerly to have been attached to 25 June.
Vor 22 Stunden · St. Alban was the first Christian martyr in Britain during the early 4th century. He is the patron saint of converts and torture victims. Although he was not a man of faith, St. Alban was very hospitable and compassionate. As a soldier, he sheltered a persecuted priest, Amphibalus, during a time when Christians were being put to death in ...
