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ALBAN, SAINT

This article appears in Volume V01, Page 481 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: AJA-ALL
ALBAN, SAINT , usually styled the protomartyr of Britain, is said to have been born at Verulamium (the modern St Albans in
Hertfordshire
 ) towards the close of the 3rd
century
 , and to have served for seven years in Rome in the army of the emperor Diocletian. On his return to Britain he settled at his native place and was put to death as a Christian during the persecution of Diocletian (c. 286-303). According to tradition, when peace was restored,
great
  honours were paid to his tomb. A
church
  was built on the spot, c. 793, by King Offa of Mercia. A monastery was subsequently added, and around it the present town of St Albans gradually grew up.
Pope
  Adrian I.V., who was born in the neighbourhood, conferred on the abbot of St Alban's the, right of precedence over his fellow abbots, a right hitherto attached to the abbey of Glastonbury. St Alban is commemorated in the Roman
martyrology
  on the 22nd of June; but it is impossible to determine with certainty whether he ever existed, as no mention of him occurs till the middle of the 6th
century
 .
See U. Chevalier, Repertoire des sources historiques (19os);i, 95; D.
Hardy
 , Descriptive Catalogue, (182), I. i. 3-34, ii. 688.


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