St. Alban and St. Albans
Wilhelm Levison
The name of St. Alban, the protomartyr Angliae , occurs for first time in Life Bishop Germanus Auxerre which Constantius Lyons wrote about 480. and his colleague Lupus Troyes had been sent to Britain 429 fight against Pelagian heretics; having succeeded, they visited tomb Alban offer their thanks victory (c. 16, Mon. Germ, hist., Scriptores rerum Merovingicarum VII, 262) : Conpressa itaque perversitate damnabili eiusque auctoribus confutatis animisque omnium fidei puritate conpositis, sacerdotes beatum Albanum martyrem, acturi Deo per ipsum gratias, petierunt . genuine text does not tell anything more martyr, who evidently could be presumed known reader. uneventful return bishops Gaul too is attributed intercession saint 18, p. 265) Tranquillam navigationem merita propria et intercessio Albani martyris paraverunt, quietosque antestites suorum desideriis felix carina restituit
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