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Christ Church Cathedral was consecrated in June 602 or 603. At Canterbury Augustine found himself amongst a diverse grouping of other Christians – Queen Bertha, her entourage and her Frankish bishop, Augustine’s own accompanying Frankish clergy, and any surviving community of British Christians.
May 27, 2015 · Some time this week, between May 26 and 28 in the year A.D. 604, Augustine of Canterbury died, many miles from his home in sunny Italy, and he was buried in the cold wet soil of distant England.
May 21, 2019 · Little is known of the early life of sixth-century Augustine of Canterbury, except that he became a great monk and was a friend of Pope Gregory the Great. Gregory appointed him to lead 30 missionaries to evangelize England. As the group traveled, news reached them of the dangerous English Channel they had to cross and the fierce tribes in England.
The paragraphs that follow will examine some of these inferences and traditions, in the hope of producing a better understanding of Augustine the man, that we might properly understand his deeds in the context of a living, breathing person. To begin with, let us examine in general terms what we understand about Augustine’s manner.
Abbot Lupus Servatus, an outstanding humanist of the time, trained Ado, and was impressed with the obvious holiness of the young man. A noble by birth, Ado renounced his inheritance and became a Benedictine, in time assigned to the monastery of Prum, near Trier, Germany. Ado's holiness made him enemies, and he was forced to leave Prum.
St Augustine of Canterbury arrived in England in 597 along with some 40 monks who had set out from Rome to evangelise the Anglo-Saxons in England. He became the first Archbishop of Canterbury and constructed a church and monastery near where the present cathedral stands. He laboured hard and patiently and purified rather than destroyed pagan ...
Canterbury Cross. This is a copy in bronze of the Saxon brooch which was found in St George’s Street, Canterbury. The brooch became a symbol for the Church of England. In 1935 copies of this bronze were sent to Anglican cathedrals throughout the world to represent their fellowship with Canterbury. Statues of Augustine, Ethelbert and Bertha
