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February 619 A.D. Laurence
Dies--2nd of 105 Archbishops of Canterbury
The article below draws from
Bevans,
G. M. “St. Laurence: Archbishop of Canterbury (Died AD 619).” Brittania.com. N.d. http://www.britannia.com/bios/abofc/laurence.html. Accessed 7 May 2014.
Bevans,
Portraits of the Archbishops of
Canterbury. Toronto, ONT: University
of Toronto Libraries, 2011. Available here: http://www.amazon.com/Portraits-Archbishops-Canterbury-Gladys-Bevan/dp/B005HI57FS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1399493248&sr=8-1&keywords=bevans+portraits+of+archbishops+of+canterbury.
St. Laurence of
Canterbury
(Died AD 619)
Archbishop of Canterbury
Died: 3rd February AD 619
(Died AD 619)
Archbishop of Canterbury
Died: 3rd February AD 619
Laurence was one of the band of missionaries who
accompanied St. Augustine of Canterbury to England from Rome in AD 597.
He later returned to the Eternal City to tell Pope Gregory the Great of the
early conversions in Kent. When he sailed again for Britain in AD 601, he
brought with him the Pope's replies to Augustine's questions about church
organization in Britain. Augustine chose Laurence to succeed him during his own
lifetime: an unusual, though not unheard of, situation. He eventually became
Archbishop in AD 604; when he endeavoured, without much success, to conciliate
the ancient Church of Britain and Scotland and encourage the former to help in
the conversion of the Saxons.
After the death of King Aethelberht of Kent, a
heathen reaction set in and Bede relates that Laurence was only deterred from
leaving the country by a vision of St. Peter who rebuked and chastised him.
King Eadbald of Kent, to whom he showed his stripes, thereupon renounced
idolatry. He was baptised and the persecution came to an end. Laurence, died in
AD 619.
Edited from G.M. Bevan's "Portraits of the
Archbishops of Canterbury" (1908).
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