St Augustine of Canterbury

Augustine was prior of Saint Andrew’s monastery on the Coelian Hill when, in596, Pope St Gregory the Great sent him with at the head of a party of in between thirty and forty missionary monks to convert the English – a people who, since the departure of the Roman legions, had fallen back into paganism, and whose residual Christianity (in the few pockets where it still existed) had become increasingly isolated and distanced from the faith and practice of Catholicism...

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