Alban
- see St Albans (disambiguation) for place names
Saint Alban was the first Christian
martyr in
Britain, becoming a
saint of the
Catholic Church.
According to the church, he was a
pagan who converted to
Christianity and was executed either circa
304 or
309, by beheading on a hill above the
Roman settlement of
Verulamium.
St. Albans Abbey at
St Albans,
Hertfordshire,
England was later founded near this site.
Feast day: June 22.