..and there was an enormous crowd; they were from every race, tribe, nation, and language, and they stood in front of the throne and of the lamb, dressed in white robes and holding palm branches in their hands. “These are the people who have come safely through the terrible persecution. They have washed their robes and made them white with the blood of the Lamb. That is why they stand before God's throne and serve him day and night in his temple." (Revelation 7)
Saint of the Day
Tuesday, 20 June 2017
Saints Alban, Julius and Aaron.
Veneration of Alban as Protomartyr of Britain depends on a cult of great antiquity at St Alban’s, known during the years of Roman occupation as Verulanium. Bede records in his Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation how, during a persecution by Diocletian, Alban surrendered himself in place of a Christian priest, and so unbaptised by water, attained a baptism of blood. In the same persecution Julius and Aaron, at Caerleon on Usk, are named among others who gave their lives for the faith.
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