{"id":146035,"date":"2026-06-22T06:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T10:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=146035"},"modified":"2026-06-22T05:57:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T09:57:27","slug":"a-prayer-for-the-feast-day-of-saint-alban-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=146035","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer for the Feast Day of Saint Alban"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Almighty God, by whose grace and power thy holy martyr Alban triumphed over suffering and was faithful even unto death: Grant to us, who now remember him with thanksgiving, to be so faithful in our witness to thee in this world, that we may receive with him the crown of life; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">22 June, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/churchofengland?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@churchofengland<\/a> remembers <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/Alban?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Alban<\/a>, first Christian known to have been martyred in British Isles. A pagan, he had been led to Christian faith by a fleeing priest &amp; gave himself up in the man\u2019s place. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/StAlbansCath?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@StAlbansCath<\/a> is on the site of his burial place. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/StAlbans?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#StAlbans<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/martyralban?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#martyralban<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zOTAssItCR\">pic.twitter.com\/zOTAssItCR<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Revd Nicholas Pye (@RevdPye) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RevdPye\/status\/2068946742679052440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 22, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almighty God, by whose grace and power thy holy martyr Alban triumphed over suffering and was faithful even unto death: Grant to us, who now remember him with thanksgiving, to be so faithful in our witness to thee in this<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=146035\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186,438,199,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-history","category-death-burial-funerals","category-england-uk","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146035"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146037,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146035\/revisions\/146037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}