Ælfnoth of Stowe

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 Saint 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. 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. Ælfnoth is not mentioned in any surviving early calendars; his feast was later kept on 27 February or on 25 November.

Ælfnoth
Martyr
Bornunknown
Died700
Stowe, Northamptonshire
Venerated inRoman Catholic Church, Church of England
Major shrineStowe, Northamptonshire
Feast27 February or 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.
Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "St. Alnoth". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.


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