Alnoth

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name=Saint Alnoth
birth_date=unknown
death_date=700
feast_day=27 February or 25 November
venerated_in=Roman Catholic Church


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Saint Alnoth (died 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.

References

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