Editing St Albans Cathedral (section)

===Romano-British Shrine===

A ''memoria'' over the execution point holding the remains of Alban existed at the site from the mid-4th century (possibly earlier). According to Bede,<ref>Chapter 7, [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ecclesiastical_History_of_the_English_Nation_(Jane)/Book_1 Book 1], [[The Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation]], [[Bede]]</ref> a Christian shrine together with its martyr cult survived from Roman times until the eighth century,<ref>Ward-Perkins, Bryan. "Why did the Anglo-Saxons not become more British?." The English Historical Review 115.462 (2000): page 524</ref> although this may be due to British control of this area.<ref>Page 72, Essays in Anglo-Saxon History, James Campbell, 1995, Bloomsbury Publishing</ref>  [[Bede]] also mentions a church and [[Gildas]] a shrine. Bishop [[Germanus of Auxerre]] visited in 429.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.stalbanscathedral.org/history/story-of-st-alban|title=Story of St Alban – The Cathedral and Abbey Church of Saint Alban|website=www.stalbanscathedral.org|access-date=10 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612141942/https://www.stalbanscathedral.org/history/story-of-st-alban|archive-date=12 June 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> This is seen as evidence of the continuation of Christianity in heavily [[Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain|Saxonised]] south and east Britain. The style of this structure is unknown; the 13th-century [[English historians in the Middle Ages|chronicler]] [[Matthew Paris]] (see below) said the Saxons destroyed the building in 586.{{cn|date=February 2025}}