Category Archives: Mercia

Mercia Day is June 22nd, the feast day of Saint Alban Saint Alban is the first recorded British Christian martyr, believed to have been beheaded in the Roman city of Verulamium, modern day St. Albans in Hertfordshire, sometime during the … Continue reading →

The Mercian flag was added to the Flag Registry in November 2014, as the traditional emblem of the former Anglo-Saxon kingdom and modern region. The earliest reference to the design is to be found in John Speed’s 1610/11 atlas of … Continue reading →