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April. 1662 Book of Common Prayer. Mr. (Abp. of Canterbury) Alphege.
Alphege,
Archbishop (954-1011). Abbot of a Benedictine monastery
near Bath, Bishop of Winchester, and Archbishop of Canterbury during the great
invasion of the Danes, in revenge for the massacre of the Danish mercenaries on
St. Brice's Day (1002). He was a man of a gentle and saintly character, taken
prisoner by the Danes on the sack of Canterbury, and murdered at Greenwich
after long imprisonment and insult, because he would not ransom himself from
the treasures of the Church. His body was buried in St. Paul's, and afterwards
translated with great pomp to Canterbury. -- April 19th.
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