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 Werburgh as a pious neatherd at Weedon,[1] 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.[2] 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. References
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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