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Saint Augustine - English
URL: http://www.ewtn.com/library/MARY/AUGCANT.HTM

The Saxons, English, and Jutes, pagan Germans, who in this island began in 454 to expel the old Britons into the mountainous part of the country, had reigned here about one hundred and fifty years, when God was pleased to open their eyes to the light of the gospel.

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Patron Saints Index: Saint Augustine of Canterbury - English
URL: http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/sainta14.htm

Also known as Apostle to the Anglo-Saxons; Apostle to the English; Austin. Monk and abbot of Saint Andrew's abbey in Rome. Sent by Pope Gregory the Great with 40 brother monks, including Saint Lawrence of Canterbury to evangelize the British Isles in 597. Before he reached the islands, terrifying tales of the Celts sent him back to Rome in fear, but Gregory told him he had no choice, and so he went.

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Biography: Augustine of Canterbury, bishop and missionary (26 May 605) - English
URL: http://elvis.rowan.edu/~kilroy/JEK/05/26.html

The Christian Church was established in the British Isles well before 300. Some scholars believe that it was introduced by missionaries from the Eastern or Greek-speaking half of the Mediterranean world. Celtic Christianity had its own distinctive culture, and Greek scholarship flourished in Ireland for several centuries after it had died elsewhere in Western Europe.

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christdesert: ST. AUGUSTINE OF CANTERBURY - English
URL: http://www.christdesert.org/noframes/scholar/benedict/st.augustine.html

The man who would become the first Archbishop of Canterbury and eventually be acclaimed as the "Apostle of England" was the prior of the Abbey of St. Andrew in Rome when, in AD 596 Pope St. Gregory I selected him to head a missionary effort aimed at converting the Anglo-Saxons. Although difficulties encountered in southern Gaul forced him to return to Rome, the pope promptly consecrated him a bishop and dispatched him again.

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The Mission of St. Augustine of Canterbury to the English. - English
URL: http://users.aol.com/butrousch/augustine/index.htm

The full discription of The Mission of St. Augustine of Canterbury to the English. This site contains 34 documents.

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Medieval Sourcebook: Bede on the Conversion of England - English
URL: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/bede1.html

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The Arrival in Kent of the missionaries sent By Gregory the Great (597)

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