When he died as king of the combined kingdom in 900, Domnall II ( Donald II ) was the first man to be called rí Alban ( i. e. King of Alba ).

According to Pasqualini it was a deity similar to Vediove, wielder of lightningbolts and chthonic, who was connected to the cult of the founders who first inhabited the Alban Mount sanctuary.

In Germany, Frank Wedekind introduced the femme-fatale of his first " Lulu " play, Earth Spirit ( 1895 ), in a Pierrot costume ; and when the Austrian composer Alban Berg drew upon the play for his opera Lulu ( unfinished ; first perf.

* Austrian — Berg, Alban: Lulu ( unfinished ; first perf.

It is the location of the martyrdom of the first English martyr saint, St Alban, who was a Roman patrician converted by the priest Amphibalus.

Alban was converted by him to Christianity, and by his death became the first British Christian martyr.

The principal members of the school, besides Schoenberg, were Alban Berg and Anton Webern, who were among his first composition pupils.

John Fisher's beheading created yet another ironic parallel with that of the martyrdom of St John the Baptist who was also beheaded ; his death also happened on the feast day of St Alban, the first martyr of Britain.

Christianity reached Britain by the third century of the Christian era, the first recorded martyrs in Britain being St. Alban and Aaron and Julius, citizens of Carlisle, during the reign of Diocletian.

St. Alban is believed to have been the first British Christian martyr.

However, both Alban Berg and Anton Webern praised it when they first heard it: for Berg it was " the only sixth, despite the Pastoral "; while Webern actually conducted it on more than one occasion.

In the first days of operations, the command of the Italian resistance movement had a meeting with the Allied General Headquarters: it offered to guide the Allied Force in the Alban Hills territory, but the Allied Command refused the proposal.

At 05: 00 he ordered the Kampfgruppe of 4th Parachute Division and the Hermann Göring Panzer Division to defend the roads leading from Anzio to the Alban Hills via Campoleone and Cisterna whilst his plans expected some 20, 000 defending troops to have arrived by the end of the first day.

The first recorded Christian martyr in Britain, St Alban, is thought to have lived in the early 4th century, and his prominence in Anglican hagiography is reflected in the number of parish churches of which he is patron.

Alban Berg was enlisted to proofread the work, but his suggested corrections were never incorporated, while at the same time some unauthorised changes were introduced, possibly by one of the conductors of the first two performances, Franz Schalk and Alexander von Zemlinsky.

He is the first American to have conducted Alban Berg's Wozzeck and Lulu.

In 1966 Redlich was a founding member and the first vice president of the International Alban Berg Society of New York.

In 1958, he appeared in the television film Little Moon of Alban with Julie Harris, for which he received his first Emmy Award nomination.

He has acted in nearly 100 TV roles in all, including appearances in Jesus of Nazareth, the five-time Emmy Award-winning The Thorn Birds, the Emmy-winning Nuremberg, the Emmy-winning Little Moon of Alban and the Emmy-winning Moneychangers ( for which he won his first Emmy as Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series ).

Legio II Parthica, garrisoned in the Alban mountains outside of Rome since the time of Septimius Severus, was among the first comitatenses created.

The school is named after Saint Alban, traditionally regarded as the first British martyr.

Davey married Emily Gasson ( Lib Dem candidate in North Dorset ) in summer 2005 and their first child, John Alban Davey, was born in December 2007.

Saint Alban, the first British Christian martyr, was a citizen of Verulamium in the late 3rd or early 4th century, and was killed there.

Much of the post-Roman development of St Albans was in memorial to Saint Alban, the earliest known British Christian martyr, executed in AD 250 ( the exact date is unknown, with scholars suggesting dates of 209, 254 and 304 ).

He made his British debut in 1966 with a performance at the Edinburgh Festival of Alban Berg's opera Wozzeck, a work his father had conducted at its premiere in 1925.

The main attack, by British 1st Infantry Division, was to advance northeast up the Via Anziate toward Campoleone and the Alban Hills.

Gonsalves was born in Colonarie, Saint Vincent, British Windward Islands to Theresa ( née Francis ) and Alban Gonsalves.

The church's namesake is Saint Alban, who was the first British Christian martyr.

In 1745 he produced anonymously his longest and most learned book, Britannia Sancta, containing the lives of the British, English, Scottish, and Irish saints, an interesting work of hagiography which was later superseded by that of Alban Butler and then by more recent publications.

* Saint Alban, the first British Christian martyr

Saint Alban was the first British Christian martyr.

Another executioner was quickly found ( whose eyes dropped out of his head when he did the deed ), and the first was killed after Alban, thereby becoming the second British Christian martyr.

St. Alban, an Anglo-Roman soldier, took the place of a Christian priest and was beheaded on Holywell Hill.

The modern city takes its name from Alban, either a citizen of Verulamium or a Roman soldier, who was condemned to death in the 3rd century for sheltering a Christian.

Alban sheltered their priest, Saint Amphibalus, in his home and was converted to the Christian faith by him.

Alban was taken before the magistrate, where he avowed his new Christian faith and was condemned for it.

* St. Alban, soldier who became a Christian martyr

After the war he continued practising as a physician until 1948, when he was ordained to the presbyterate and sent to Britain to serve as Orthodox Christian Chaplain of the Fellowship of St. Alban and St. Sergius, a society established to foster understanding and friendship between the Orthodox and Anglican communions.

Saint Amphibalus was formerly venerated as the Christian priest traditionally sheltered by Saint Alban, who was converted by him, as a consequence of which Alban was martyred.

Alban, a Roman army officer who became Britain's first Christian martyr after his arrest at Chantry Island, died in the 3rd or 4th century and gave his name to the modern town of St Albans.

At the Edinburgh Festival he has appeared both as a soloist and chamber musician performing with just a few of his long-term collaborators Christian Tetzlaff, Alban Gerhardt, Paul Lewis and Lisa Batiashvili.

* Saint Alban of Mainz, a German Christian martyr

Alban sheltered a Christian priest ( Geoffrey of Monmouth's later interpolation giving his name as " Amphibalus ", the name for the cloak ) in his home, and was converted and baptised by him.

Alban was taken before the magistrate, who was furious at the deception and ordered that Alban be given the punishment due to the priest if he had indeed become a Christian.