26
May. 1662 Book of Common
Prayer--Augustine, 1st of 105 Archbishops of Canterbury.
Bevans, G.M. “St. Augustine, Archbishop of
Canterbury.” Britannia.com. 1908.
http://www.britannia.com/bios/abofc/augustine.html. Accessed 7 May 2014.
St. Augustine of Canterbury
(Died AD 604)
Prior of St. Andrew's, Coelian Hill, Rome
Pseudo-Abbot of St. Augustine's, Canterbury
Archbishop of Canterbury
Died: 26th May AD 604
(Died AD 604)
Prior of St. Andrew's, Coelian Hill, Rome
Pseudo-Abbot of St. Augustine's, Canterbury
Archbishop of Canterbury
Died: 26th May AD 604
Also known as St. Augustine the
Less to distinguish him from his illustrious namesake from Hippo. Augustine was
chosen by Pope Gregory the Great as leader of the mission sent from Rome for
the evangelization of the English. He landed in the Isle of Thanet in the
Spring of AD 597 and, within a year, Aethelbert, King of Kent, was baptised
with several thousand of his subjects.
The foundation of Canterbury Cathedral was laid
five years later, supposedly, on the site of an old Roman Church. Augustine was
consecrated by Vergilius, Archbishop of Arles and became the first Archbishop
of Canterbury.
The alienation between the British Church and the
Italian missionaries might have been averted had Augustine recognised the
consideration that was due to the Church which had existed in britain for three
centuries, and had been more tolerant of the diversity between British and
Roman usage.
He had laid the foundation stone of the Monastery
of St. Peter & St. Paul outside Canterbury, later known as St. Augustine's,
in the year of his arrival and here he was buried. He died on 26th May,
traditionally in AD 604, but possibly as late as 609.
Edited from G.M. Bevan's "Portraits of the
Archbishops of Canterbury" (1908).
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