My prayer poem for Monday 19 April 2021(Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr 1012)

My prayer poem for Monday 19 April 2021
(Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr 1012)


St Alphege chose simplicity
and shunned a life of ease,
choosing instead the hermit’s way;
service on bended knees.


And when the call to greatness came,
with Archiepiscopal gains,
he would not give a ransom
when captured by the Danes.


So he was martyred brutally
and treated as the cursed
and with an axe they killed him,
of Archbishops the first.


©️Mark Andrew Smith
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