Ælfnoth or Alnoth (died 700) was an
English hermit and martyr. Little is known of his life, though he is mentioned in
Jocelyn's life of
Werburgh as a pious
neatherd at
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.
Thurston, Herbert. "St. Alnoth." The Catholic Encyclopedia
Vol. 1. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1907
On this ground he was honoured as a martyr; and there was some concourse of pilgrims to his tomb at Stowe near Bugbrooke in Northamptonshire
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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
*, 27 February, III
*Stanton, Richard, ''Menology'' (London, 1892), 565
*Baring-Gould, S., Lives of Saints (London, 1894), II, 48.
;Attribution
7th-century births
700 deaths
Mercian saints
People from West Northamptonshire District
7th-century Christian saints
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