The judge
then, astonished at the novelty of so many heavenly miracles, ordered that
the persecution should cease immediately, beginning thus to honour the
saints for their patience and constancy, in suffering that death by the
terrors of which he had expected to have withdrawn them from their
adherence to the Christian faith. St. Alban suffered on the 20th of June,
near the city of Verulam, now, from him, called St. Alban's; a church of
most exquisite workmanship, and suitable to commemorate his martyrdom,
having been afterwards erected there as soon as peace was restored to the
Christian church; in which place there cease not to this day the
miraculous cures of many sick persons, and the frequent working of
wonders.
At the same time suffered Aaron and Julius, inhabitants of the
city of Leicester [or Caerleon], and many others of both sexes, in other places; who,
having been tormented on the rack till their members were dislocated, and
having endured various other unheard-of cruelties, yielded their souls,
after the conflict was over, to the joys of the city above.