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A few further images of Alban of England, who in addition to his celebration on 20. June in the Church of England and in other churches of the Anglican Communion has an optional celebration on this day in the (Roman) Catholic Church of England and Wales. In the Roman Martyrology and in the calendars of some smaller Western-rite churches his commemoration falls on 22. June. Alban of Mainz (conceivably Alban of England transformed by a distinct, later-appearing hagiography) is celebrated on 21. June in Roman Catholic dioceses in Belgium, Luxembourg, western and southern Germany, and Switzerland.
a) Alban's martyrdom as depicted by the Alexis Master in the earlier twelfth-century St Albans Psalter (betw. 1120 and 1145; Hildesheim, Dombibliothek, MS St. Godehard 1; p. 41):
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/stalbanspsalter/english/translation/trans416.shtml
b) Alban's martyrdom as depicted by the thirteenth-century St Albans monk Matthew Paris in an early, partly autograph manuscript of his _Chronica maiora_ (Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Ms 26):
http://tinyurl.com/o8llvyk
c) Scenes from a Life of Alban as depicted by Matthew Paris in another earlier fourteenth-century manuscript (Dublin, Trinity College, Ms E.I.40., fols. 77 ff.):
http://tinyurl.com/pwk2t4e
http://tinyurl.com/35po52k
d) Alban's martyrdom as depicted in an earlier fourteenth-century copy of Vincent of Beauvais' _Speculum historiale_ in its French-language version by Jean de Vignay (Paris, BnF, ms. Arsenal 5080, fol. 240r):
http://tinyurl.com/777c3rv
e) Alban's martyrdom as depicted in a later fourteenth-century copy (ca. 1370-1380) of Vincent of Beauvais' _Speculum historiale_ in its French-language version by Jean de Vignay (Paris, BnF, ms. Nouvelle acquisition française 15941, fol. 98r):
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8449688c/f203.item
Best,
John Dillon
On 06/20/15, Gordon Plumb wrote:
>
> June 20th is the feast of St Alban:
>
> A few images:
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> Warwick, St Mary, Beauchamp Chantry, I, 3b-4b (upper right figure):
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/5067706793
> and detail:
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/5068301376
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> At Albans, Cathedral and Abbey Church of St Alban, details of shrine base:
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/5859979980 (scourging of Alban)
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/5860161272 (King)
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/5859672327 (King, possibly Offa)
>
> Gordon Plumb
>
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