...spot covered with bushes and flowers, St. Alban, falling on his knees, prayed that God would .vi ve him water, and immediately a living spring broke out before his feet, in which he quenched his thirst; and then bending his neck to the executioner, the head of this most...

...all kinds of flowers, having its sides neither perpendicular, nor even craggy, but sloping down into a most beautiful plain, worthy from its lovely appearance...spring broke out before his feet, the course being conilned, so that all men perceived that the river also had been dried up in consequence of the martyr's...

...were said to have had a miraculous origin : eg Bede says that St. Alban at the place of his martyrdom, "prayed that God would give him water, and immediately a living spring broke out before his feet. " ( ' Eccl. Hist. ' I. c. vii. ) So St. Winifred's well, hereafter mentioned, broke out from the place...

...of the hill, a most pleasant spot covered with bushes and flowers, St. Al)>an, falling on his knees, prayed that God would give him water, and immediately a living spring broke out before his feet, in which he quenched his thirst ; and then bending his neck to the executioner, the head of this most...

...of the hill, a most pleasant spot covered with bushes and flowers, St. Alban, falling on his knees, prayed that God would give him water, and immediately a living spring bvoke out before his feet, in which he quenched his thirst ; and then bending his neck to the executioner,...

...of the hill, a most pleasant spot covered with bushes and flowers, St. Alban, falling on his knees, prayed that God would give him water, and immediately a living spring broke out before his feet, in which he quenched his thirst ; and then bending his neck to the executioner, the head of this most...

...as " Holywell Hill," in memory of the tradition recorded by Bede, that on the brow of this hill S. Alban prayed that God would give him water, and immediately a living spring broke out before his feet. The number of ancient dedications to this saint, whom old Camden calls " our Stephen," is much smaller...

...beautiful plain, a worthy place to be the scene of a martyr's sufferings. On the top of the hill S. Alban prayed that God would give him water, and immediately...living spring broke out before his feet. . . . The river having performed its holy function, resumed its natural course. Here the head of our most courageous...

...its native beauty, to be consecrated by the blood of a blessed martyr. On the top of this hill, Si. Alban prayed that God would give him water, and immediately a living spring, confined in its channel, tprang up at his feet, so that all men acknowledged that even the stream had...

...plain, worthy from its lovely appearance to be the scene of a martyr's sufferings. On the top of the hill St Alban prayed that God would give him water,...immediately a living spring broke out before his feet. Here the head of our most courageous martyr was struck off, and here he received the crown of life...