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,Bonato, Mauro. "Sant’ Alnoto di Stowe", Santi e Beati, August 23, 2019 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.Thurston, Herbert. "St. Alnoth." The Catholic Encyclopedia Vol. 1. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1907
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
, 27 February, III Stanton, Richard, Menology (London, 1892), 565 Baring-Gould, S., Lives of Saints (London, 1894), II, 48.
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