Martyrdom of St Alphege
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Martyrdom of St Alphege
Image: © Tiger Taken: 7 Dec 2013
Detail from a window of 1929 in memory of Anne Lowe in the upper north chapel of St Alphege within St Alphege's Parish Church. The windows show scenes from the life of Alphege (Ælfheah), the first Archbishop of Canterbury to be martyred and the only one to be commemorated as such in Anglican, Orthodox and Roman calendars alike. Alphege, held hostage at Greenwich, was beaten to death with cattle bones by Danish soldiers on 19 April 1012. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86lfheah_of_Canterbury
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