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AUGUSTINE, or AUSTIN, St., the
first Archbishop of Canterbury: nothing is known of his early life. In 596,
when he was the abbot of the monastery of St. Andrew at Rome, Gregory the Great (590-604), who for many years
had taken deep interest in the English, sent him at the head of forty of his
monks to England to convert the Anglo-Saxons. They met so many obstacles on
their way to the coast, that they returned, and asked to be excused. But Gregory sent them again; and at last they landed
at Ebbe’s Fleet, on the Isle of Thanet. Ethelbert, the Saxon king, had
married a Christian, Bertha, & daughter of Charibert, King of Paris, twenty
years before; and thus the way was providentially opened. Ethelbert was
baptized (507), and his tribe was Christianized. Augustine went to Aries, whose
metropolitan consecrated him the first Archbishop of Canterbury. A deputation
he sent to tell Gregory the good news returned
laden with presents, and bearing the pallium, which made Augustine
independent of the bishops of France. Gregory’s dream of converting the
entire island to the Roman Church was not realized., The British bishops of
Cornwall and Wales refused to obey the Roman bishop. But, though unsuccessful
in a measure, much had been accomplished when, May 26, 601, Augustine died. He
was afterwards canonized on the ground of a reputed miracle, — curing a
Saxon of his blind-ness.
Philip Schaff, ed., A Religious
Encyclopaedia or Dictionary of Biblical, Historical, Doctrinal, and Practical
Theology, 3rd edn, Vol. 1. Toronto, New York & London: Funk &
Wagnalls Company, 1894. pp.172-173
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Arthur West
Hadden & William Stubbs, eds. Councils and Ecclesiastical Documents
Relating to Great Britain and Ireland, 1871. Oxford : Clarendon Press,
1964. pp.3-60. |
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Arthur James
Mason, ed. The Mission of Augustine to the English According to the Original
Documents. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1897. pp. xix +
252. |
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Nicholas
Brooks, The Early History of the Church at Canterbury, new edn.
Continuum International Publishing Group - Leicester University Press, 1996.
ISBN: 0718500415. pp.417. |
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![George Forrest Browne [1833-1930], Augustine and His Companions. Four Lectures Delivered at St. Paul's in January, 1895](images/books3/augustine-and-his-companions_browne-tb.jpg) George Forrest Browne [1833-1930], Augustine and His Companions. Four Lectures Delivered at St. Paul's in January, 1895. London: SPCK, 1895. Hbk. pp.201.  pdf [This material is in the Public Domain] |
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St.
Augustine of Canterbury (Cornelius Clifford) |
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Edward Lewes Cutts [1824-1901], Augustine of Canterbury. London: Methuen & Co., 1895. Hbk. pp.207. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain] |
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Margaret
Deanesly & Paul Grosjean, "The Canterbury Edition of the Answers of Pope
Gregory I to St. Augustine," Journal of Ecclesiastical History 10
(1959): 1-49.m |
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 Margaret Deanesley, Augustine of Canterbury. Saint Austin Press, 1997. Pbk. ISBN:
1901157253. pp.175. |
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Richard
Gameson, Saint Augustine of Canterbury. Canterbury Sources, 1998. Pbk.
ISBN: 0950139211. |
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 Richard Gameson, ed. St Augustine and the
Conversion of England. Sutton Publishing, 1999. Hbk. ISBN: 0750920874.
pp.288. |
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George Frederick Maclear [1833-1902], A History of Christian Missions During the Middle Ages. Cambridge & London: MacMillan & Co, 1863. Hbk. pp.466. [This material is in the Public Domain] |
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![Henry Hoyle Howorth [1842-1923], Saint Augustine of Canterbury with Illustrations, Maps, Tables and Appendices](images/books3/augustine-the-missionary_howorth-tb.jpg) Henry Hoyle Howorth [1842-1923], Saint Augustine of Canterbury with Illustrations, Maps, Tables and Appendices. The Birth of the English Church. London: John Murray, 1913. Hbk. pp.451. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain] |
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P. Meyvaert,
"Bede's text of the Libellus Responsionum of Gregory the Great and
Augustine of Canterbury," P. Clemoes & K. Hugyhes, eds. England Before
the Conquest: Studies in Primary Sources Presented to Dorothy Whitelock.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1971. ISBN: 0521081912. pp.418. |
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Thomas Smith, Medieval Missions. Duff Missionary Lectures - First Series. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1880. Hbk. pp.279. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain] |
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 Frank M. Stenton, Anglo-Saxon England,
3rd edn. Oxford History of England, 2. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Pbk. ISBN: 0192801392. pp.102-13. |
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