- Alban Roe
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name=Saint Alban Roe
birth_date=c. 1583
death_date=death date|1642|1|21|df=y
feast_day=21 January
venerated_in=Roman Catholic Church
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birth_place=Bury St. Edmunds ,Suffolk ,England
death_place=Tyburn
titles=Catholic Martyr
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canonized_date=25 October 1970
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canonized_by=Pope Paul VI
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prayer_attrib=Saint Alban Roe (born as Bartholemew Roe c. 1583 - died
21 January 1642 ), was aBenedictine priest and Catholic Martyr.Believed to have been born sometime in the year 1583 in
Bury St. Edmunds , in thecounty ofSuffolk ,England . He converted to Catholicism, after meeting an imprisoned Catholicrecusant , and set about devoting himself toGod .He spent some time at the English college at
Douai in northernFrance , but was expelled for insubordination. He spent the rest of hisnovitiate at theAbbey of St. Lawrence,Dieulouard , a newly openedBenedictine house nearNancy . Dieulouard was home to Benedictine monks fleeing persecution in postReformation England, from the only house re-opened by Queen Mary atWestminster . He was ordainedpriest there in 1612.He was sent back to England to preach, but was banished in 1615. Undeterred, he returned in 1618 and was imprisoned until 1623, whereby his release and re-exile was organised by the Spanish Ambassador. He returned two years later, and was incarcerated for seventeen years, meeting his end at Tyburn, where he died by
hanging, drawing and quartering on21 January 1642 .He is remembered as one of the
Forty Martyrs of England and Wales , and wascanonised on25 October 1970 byPope Paul VI .His brethren from Dieulouard returned to England in 1792, during the upheavals of the
French revolution . In 1802 they settled inYorkshire , at what was to become Ampleforth Abbey along with its eponymous College.St. Alban Roe's
Feast Day is celebrated onJanuary 21 .External links
* [http://www.ampleforth.org.uk/abbey/The_Abbey/History/Alban_Roe/alban_roe.html Story of Saint Alban Roe] on Ampleforth's website
* [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13109d.htm Saint Alban Roe] in the Catholic Encyclopedia
* [http://www.catholic-forum.com/Saints/sainta8y.htm Saint Alban Roe] in the Catholic Forum
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