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The parting of the Thames

‘Alban is walking to his execution when he “opens a path across the noble river Thames, whose waters stood abrupt like precipices”’

IT is the 4th century AD and Britain is occupied by the Romans. In Verulamium (the site of modern-day St Albans), Christians are being persecuted. One,

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