Alnoth

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Saint Alnoth
Martyr
Born unknown
Died 700, Stowe, Northamptonshire
Venerated in Roman Catholic Church
Major shrine Stowe, Northamptonshire
Feast 27 February or 25 November
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Saint Alnoth (d. 700) was an English hermit and martyr. Little is known of his life, though he is mentioned in Jocelyn's life of Saint Werburgh as a pious neatherd at Weedon, who bore with great patience the ill-treatment of the bailiff placed over him, and who afterwards became a hermit in a very lonely spot, where he was eventually murdered by two robbers. On this ground he was honoured as a martyr; and there was some concourse of pilgrims to his tomb at Stowe near Bugbrooke in Northamptonshire. Alnoth is not mentioned in any surviving early calendars; his feast was later kept on 27 February or on 25 November.

[edit] References

  • Acta Sanctorum, 27 February, III
  • Stanton, Richard, Menology (London, 1892), 565
  • Baring-Gould, Rev S., Lives of Saints (London, 1894), II, 48.
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