26
May. 1662 Book of Common
Prayer. Augustin, Archbishop.
Augustine,
Archbishop. (St. Augustine of Canterbury). He was a Roman
monk, the chief agent in the conversion of the Saxons, which was primarily the
work of Gregory the Great. He landed in 596, baptized King Ethelbert in 597,
was consecrated in Gaul as first Archbishop of Canterbury in 598, and founded
the Bishoprics of Rochester and London before his death in 604. He was
apparently an earnest and eloquent but not a great man, guilty of some
harshness and arrogance in relation to the old British Church, and leaning
throughout for guidance on the larger and loftier mind of Gregory; but rightly
honoured as having been privileged to be the founder of English Christianity.
-- May 26th.
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