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There was a heathen emperor named , who was chosen to be emperor over all the earth, though he was a destroyer of men, two hundred and eighty-six years after Christ's incarnation; and he reigned twenty years, a cruel murderer, so that he killed, and bade kill, a ....

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.... to sing his offices, and fast strictly, and day and night to praise his Lord, and meanwhile to teach the true faith to the honorable Alban, until he believed in the true God, and renounced heathenism, and became verily a Christian, and exceeding full of faith. Then the priest dwelt with the honorable man until the magistrate who persecuted the Christians discovered him there, and with great wrath commanded him to be fetched before him speedily. Then came the messengers to Alban's house, but Alban went out unto the persecutors with the priest's cloak, as if he were he, and would not betray him to the wicked persecutors. He was therefore b ....