Portal:Christianity/Selected biography/August 2009
Painted carving of Saint Alphege in Canterbury Cathedral
Ælfheah (954 – 19 April 1012;
Viking raiders in 1011 and killed by them the following year, after refusing to allow himself to be ransomed. Ælfheah was canonized as a saint in 1078. Saint Thomas Becket
, a later Archbishop of Canterbury, prayed to him just before his own slaying in Canterbury Cathedral.
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