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Saint Alban

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Saint Alban

Venerated as the first-recorded British Christian martyr. Traditionally believed to have been beheaded in Verulamium (modern St Albans) sometime during the 3rd or 4th century.

His attributes are: Soldier with a very large cross and a sword; decapitated, with his head in a holly bush and the eyes of his executioner dropping out. Nice.

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Saint Alban

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St Albans church

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