St Alban

A member attending a Benedictine gathering at St Alban's in Hertfordshire tells us that he performed the SSIM duties at the Cathedral there today. the Cathedral was a Benedictine Abbey until the reformation.

The Shrine of St Alban, dating back to the 13th Century contains a part of St Alban's shoulder blade, a gift from St Pantaleon's Church in Cologne in 2002. St Pantaleon is also a former Benedictine Foundation.

A further major relic (the thigh) of St Alban is preserved at St Michael's Abbey, Farnborough and was also taken from the St Pantaleon reliquary (1950s).

The cult of St Alban was noted by St Bede in 731 although he is first mentioned in literature in circa 480.

St Alban, Protomartyr of Britain; pray for us!