Tuesday, April 19, 2011
On this Date in 1012...
...after refusing to allow himself to be ransomed for his freedom by his Viking captors, Alphege was beaten to death by a mob in Greenwich, now a suburb of London, the first Archbishop of Canterbury to die a violent death. Then he was shot out of a cannon. Either that or he was canonized, one of the two.
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