Assertion: martyr | /r/HasProperty | alban
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text: The Vita Germani was long regarded as the earliest source for the martyr Alban, but recent research by Richard Sharpe has suggested the earliest version of the Passio Albani (the official story of the saint's martyrdom) may be even earlier (see below and Sources).
text: He therefore argues against the conclusion of Woods and Garcia that the martyr Alban was unknown before being invented by Germanus.
text: That is on the basis of what is in fact the earliest mention of the martyr Alban in an indigenous British source, in the De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae probably written in the second quarter of the fifth century, by the British author Gildas.