Feast day: April 19
St. Alphege
Archbishop of Canterbury taken captive by a Viking army, who forbade his people to pay his ransom rather than burden the poor, and was killed by his drunken captors.
He refused to let a ransom be raised for him, knowing it would crush the poor; his furious captors pelted him to death with ox bones at a feast.
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