The judge said to him: 'Tell me thy name,
without any delay, now that I thus ask.'
The champion of God said to the murderer thus,
'I am hight Albanus, and I believe in the Saviour,
who is the true God, and made all creatures;
to Him I pray, and Him will I ever worship.'
The murderer answered the glorious man,
'If thou wilt have the felicity of the everlasting life,
then thou must not delay to sacrifice
to the great gods, with full submission.'
Alban answered him: ' Your sacrifices to the gods,
which ye offer to devils, cannot help you,
nor profit your cause, but ye shall receive as your meed
everlasting punishments in the wide-reaching hell,'
Lo! then the judge became fiendishly irate,
and commanded men to scourge the holy martyr,
weening that he might bend the steadfastness of his mind
to his (own) forms of worship by means of the stripes;
but the blessed man was strengthened by God,
and bore the scourging exceeding patiently,
and with glad mind thanked God for it.
Then the judge perceived that he could not overcome
the holy man by the severe tortures,
nor turn [him] from Christ, and commanded them to kill him
by decapitation, for the Saviour's name.
Then the heathen did as the judge commanded them,
and led the Saint unto his beheading;
but they were delayed a long while at a bridge,
and stood still until evening by reason of the exceeding crowd
of men and of women who were stirred up,
