Day 320/18. The Seven Martyrs

The Seven Martyrs installed behind the altar in St Albans Cathedral in 2015.
A colourful and moving addition.
The seven martyrs are:
St Alban - Britain’s first saint, a citizen of Roman Verulamium, martyred by the Romans on the site of the present day Cathedral;
St Amphibalus - the Christian priest to whom Alban gave shelter in the third century AD when Christianity was still proscribed;
George Tankerfield - a Protestant, burnt to death in Romeland, overlooking St Albans Abbey, in 1555 because of his refusal to accept the doctrine of transubstantiation; 
St Alban Roe - a Roman Catholic, imprisoned for a time in St Albans Abbey Gatehouse and hanged in London in 1642 having been found guilty of treason for being a Roman Catholic priest;
St Elisabeth Romanova – granddaughter of Queen Victoria who married into the Russian Royal Family and converted to the Russian Orthodox Church, who in her widowhood became a nun and Abbess, and was murdered by the Bolsheviks in 1918;
Dietrich Bonhoeffer – Lutheran pastor and theologian, imprisoned in a concentration camp for his opposition to the Nazis, tried without witnesses or defence and executed by hanging in April 1945;
Oscar Romero – Roman Catholic Archbishop of El Salvador, who spoke out against poverty, social injustice and torture of the totalitarian regime in his country, and was assassinated in 1980.
The Seven Martyrs are a gift to the Cathedral from Richard and Susan Walduck, long-time friends of the Cathedral.