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I suspect that the author is simply treating 'priest' as meaning more-or-less the same as 'monk' or perhaps 'religious person'...

The kind of conflation the non-medievalist-in-a-hurry often makes... though its Gamma Minus from a Head of History.
 
Jon 

PS
This written from the Common Room of just such a school...


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Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 15:37:13 +0000
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Quite right too. (He has already had one of those for finding out the names of King Stephen's sisters when the answer wanted was the name of his cousin!)
 
I gather it is compiled by the head of history at one of England's most famous public (that is fee-paying) schools.  I am already in bad odour with the head of history at another such school because I voiced my doubts about a school with its resources only teaching 19th and 20th century history during the five years for ages 13 to 18. 
 
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The horrid thing for children of academics is to come up with the technically correct answer and then to receive a failing mark from a teacher whose answer key contains a popular misconception.
 
At that point it may be helpful to find out who is producing the material which the teacher uses and to suggest to the editors an emendation for the next edition of their materials.
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Are they conflating Alban and Amphibulus - the latter WAS a priest. He's the chap Alban changed clothes with.
 
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Are any colleagues aware of early English Christian martyrs who were priests?  I ask because my son has been sent home from school with an enormously long quiz, including the question:
'Identify the priest who is reckoned to be England's first Christian martyr, killed for his faith'
The 'obvious' answer is St Alban - but he was not a priest and it was not England.  This may just be one more sad indictment of the level of modern education.  The next question is 'identify the priest who wrote the Ecclesiastical History of the English People, finished in 731' - not actually incorrect as Bede was a priest but not the way I would identify him, primarily!
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