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Jul 31, 2023 · 77. 1K views 2 weeks ago. Join Canon Emma as she explores the stories and lives behind the six famous Canterbury saints which are depicted on the beautiful Canterbury Cope and why they mean so...
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Oct 4, 2008 · Subscribed. 203. 27K views 15 years ago. The life of St Augustine of Canterbury as told in the stained glass windows of St Augustine's Church Wembley Park ...more.
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1 day ago · On this episode of FACTS, Stephen will be joined by guest, Fr. Steve Macias, to discuss the origins of the Church of England, and the importance of Augustine...
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- Arrival and First Efforts
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- Further Success
- Death and Legacy
After the withdrawal of the Roman legions from their province of Britannia in 410, the inhabitants were left to defend themselves against the attacks of the Saxons. Before the Roman withdrawal, Britannia had been converted to Christianity and produced the ascetic Pelagius. Britain sent three bishops to the Council of Arles in 314, and a Gaulish bis...
Augustine was accompanied by Laurence of Canterbury, his eventual successor to the archbishopric, and a group of about 40 companions, some of whom were monks. Soon after leaving Rome, the missionaries halted, daunted by the nature of the task before them. They sent Augustine back to Rome to request papal permission to return. Gregory refused and se...
In 604, Augustine founded two more bishoprics in Britain. Two men who had come to Britain with him in 601 were consecrated, Mellitus as Bishop of London and Justus as Bishop of Rochester. Bede relates that Augustine, with the help of the king, "recovered" a church built by Roman Christians in Canterbury. It is not clear if Bede meant that Augustine...
Gregory also instructed Augustine on other matters. Temples were to be consecrated for Christian use, and feasts, if possible, moved to days celebrating Christian martyrs. One religious site was revealed to be a shrine of a local St Sixtus, whose worshippers were unaware of details of the martyr's life or death. They may have been native Christians...
Before his death, Augustine consecrated Laurence of Canterbury as his successor to the archbishopric, probably to ensure an orderly transfer of office. Although at the time of Augustine's death, 26 May 604, the mission barely extended beyond Kent, his undertaking introduced a more active missionary style into the British Isles. Despite the earlier ...
The founder of the Christian church in England and the first archbishop of Canterbury was a monk named Augustine. Known as the Apostle of the English, he was responsible for the conversion of millions of people to Christianity.
In AD 598, he decided to send a bishop, named Augustine, to persuade all the Saxons to become Christians. St. Augustine crossed the English Channel and went to the palace of King Aethelbert of Kent in Canterbury. King Aethelbert was a pagan, but his wife was a Christian. She was a Frank (from France).
St Augustine's, Ramsgate. Augustine of Canterbury (early 6th century – most likely 26 May 604) was a Christian monk who became the first archbishop of Canterbury in the year 597. He is considered the "Apostle to the English”. Augustine was the prior of a monastery in Rome when Pope Gregory the Great chose him in 595 to lead a mission ...
