After a siege of about three weeks, Canterbury was betrayed and stormed by Thorkell the Tall's Danish army in September 1011. The cathedral was plundered and burned and Archbishop Alphege was taken captive. The Danes demanded a ransom for Alphege but he refused to allow it to be paid, saying the poor could not afford to redeem him. In April 1012 he was pelted to death with bones and ox-heads at Greenwich by drunken Danes. He was canonised and is venerated as Saint Alphege. The sack was a catastrophe for the English church.
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