Ælfnoth or Alnoth (died 700) was an
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hermit and martyr. Little is known of his life, though he is mentioned in Jocelyn's life of Saint
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Weedon, who bore with great patience the ill-treatment of the bailiff placed over him, and who afterwards became a hermit in a very lonely spot, where he was eventually murdered by two robbers. On this ground he was honoured as a martyr; and there was some concourse of pilgrims to his tomb at Stowe near
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. Ælfnoth is not mentioned in any surviving early calendars; his feast was later kept on 27 February or on 25 November.
References
*''Acta Sanctorum'', 27 February, III
*Stanton, Richard, ''Menology'' (London, 1892), 565
*Baring-Gould, Rev S., Lives of Saints (London, 1894), II, 48.
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7th-century births
700 deaths
Mercian saints
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