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Alban Roe (20 July 1583 – 21 January 1642) was an English Benedictine priest, remembered as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales.
Overview. Alban Bartholomew Roe. (1583—1642) Quick Reference. (1583–1642), Benedictine monk, priest and martyr. Born in Suffolk, Roe was educated at Cambridge University and became an ardent and aggressive Protestant.
Jan 21, 2017 · On 21 January 1642 the Benedictine monk Alban Roe, born Bartholomew Roe at Bury St Edmunds in around 1583, suffered martyrdom at Tyburn by being hanged, drawn and quartered for high treason. St Alban Roe was beatified in 1929 and canonised in 1970.
Missionary and martyr, one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales. Alban is believed to have been born in Bury St. Edmund's, England, about 1580. He converted to Catholicism and went to the English College at Douai, where he was dismissed for an infraction of discipline.
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ROE, ALBAN (BARTHOLOMEW), ST. Benedictine martyr; b. Suffolk, 1583; executed at Tyburn, Jan. 21, 1642. As an undergraduate at Cambridge he was an ardent Protestant. A visit to a recusant named David in St. Alban's prison, ostensibly to convert him, instead unsettled Roe's own Protestant convictions; he returned to Cambridge very disturbed.
On 21st January 1642 Alban Roe, a priest and monk of the Order of Saint Benedict, was hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn, the penalty inflicted on those convicted of high treason. Born in Suffolk in 1583 and christened Bartholomew he had been a Protestant in childhood and in early adult life. He converted to
