Venerated as the first-recorded British Christian martyr (protomartyr), St. Alban is venerated in the East on 22nd June, and in the West on 17th June because of a misreading of the Roman XXII. Alban lived Verulamium (now St Albans) in Roman Britain when Christians were suffering persecution under Septimius Severus 193-211. Alban met a Christian … Continue reading St. Alban