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SAINT ALPHEGE [zELFHEAH] (954-1023)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 732 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SAINT See also:ALPHEGE [zELFHEAH] (954-1023)  , See also:archbishop of See also:Canterbury, came of a See also:noble See also:family, but in See also:early See also:life gave up everything for See also:religion . Having assumed the monastic See also:habit in the monastery of Deerhurst, he pased thence to See also:Bath, where he became an anchorite and ultimately See also:abbot, distinguishing himself by his piety and the austerity of his life . In 984 he was appointed through See also:Dunstan's See also:influence to the bishopric of See also:Winchester, and in roo6 he succeeded See also:IElfric as archbishop of Canterbury . At the See also:sack of Canterbury by the Danes in See also:roll i lfheah was captured and kept in See also:prison for seven months . Refusing to pay a See also:ransom he was barbarously murdered at See also:Greenwich on the 19th of See also:April 1012 . He was buried in St See also:Paul's, whence his See also:body was removed by Canute to Canterbury with all the ceremony of a See also:great See also:act of See also:state in 1023 . Lives of St . See also:Alphege in See also:prose (which survives) and in See also:verse were written by command of See also:Lanfranc by the Canterbury See also:monk Osbern (d. c . 1090), who says that his See also:account of the See also:solemn See also:translation to Canterbury in 1023 was received from the See also:dean, Godric, one of Alphege's own scholars .

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