January 21st

Saint Alban Roe and Blessed Thomas Green, Martyrs of England

Saint · Common of Martyrs · London, England, United Kingdom

At London in England, Saint Alban Roe, of the Order of Saint Benedict, and Blessed Thomas Green, priests and martyrs, who, under King Charles I — the one after seventeen years spent in prison, the other after fourteen, both now worn down by old age — were together hanged for Christ on the gallows at Tyburn.

Latin Original

Londínii in Anglia, sancti Albáni Roe, ex Ordine Sancti Benedicti, et beáti T’homaz Green, presbyterórum et mártyrum, qui, sub Cárolo rege Primo, alter post septem et decem annos in cárcere peráctos, alter post quattuórdecim, iam senectüte confécti simul pro Christo Tybürni patibulo suspénsi sunt.