RT Article
T1 Alphege (954–1012): A Saint for His Time and for Our Time
JF The Downside review
VO 138
IS 2
SP 68
OP 78
A1 Mercer, Giles
LA English
PB Sage
YR 2020
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1726699471
AB The following has been adapted from talks given at St Alphege Church, Solihull; Our Lady and St Alphege Church, Bath; and St Joseph’s Church, Peasedown St John, and to the English Catholic History Association, Winchester Catholic History Society and Prinknash Abbey Book Club. Alphege is one of the outstanding saints from these lands, Bath’s greatest son, a gifted monastic leader, a radical bishop of Winchester and a self-sacrificing archbishop of Canterbury. He was to be revered throughout pre-Reformation England and beyond. I will make some general points about Alphege’s world, then set out what we know about the life and death of Alphege and finally suggest why he is important for us today.
K1 Alphege
K1 Anglo-Saxon
K1 Bath
K1 Canterbury
K1 Downside
DO 10.1177/0012580620931396