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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - St Augustine of Canterbury
DESCRIPTION:ST. AUGUSTINE\, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY \nFrom the writing of Alban Butler2 \n◊◊◊ \nWhen Pope St. Gregory the Great decided that the time had come for the \nevangelization of Anglo-Saxon England\, he chose as missionaries some thirty or more \nmonks from his monastery of St. Andrew… As their leader he gave them their own \nprior\, Augustine. The party set out from Rome in the year 596; but no sooner had \nthey arrived in Provence than they were assailed with warnings about the ferocity of \nthe Anglo-Saxons and the dangers of the Channel. Greatly discouraged\, they \npersuaded Augustine to return to Rome and obtain leave to abandon the enterprise. \nSt. Gregory\, however\, had received definite assurance that the English were well \ndisposed towards the Christian faith; he therefore sent Augustine back to his brethren \nwith words of encouragement which gave them heart to proceed on their way. \nThey landed in the Isle of Thanet in the territory of Ethelbert\, king of Kent\, who \nwas baptized at Pentecost 597. Almost immediately afterwards St. Augustine paid a \nvisit to France\, where he was consecrated bishop of the English by St. Virgilius\, \nmetropolitan of Arles. At Christmas of that same year\, many of Ethelbert’s subjects \nwere baptized… Augustine sent two of his monks\, Laurence and Peter\, to Rome to \ngive a full report of his mission\, to ask for more helpers and obtain advice on various \npoints. They came back bringing the pallium for Augustine and accompanied by a \nfresh band of missionaries\, amongst whom were St. Mellitus\, St. Justus and St. \nPaulinus. \nGregory outlined for Augustine the course he should take to develop a \nhierarchy for the whole country\, and both to him and to Mellitus gave very practical \ninstructions on other points. Pagan temples were not to be destroyed\, but were to be \npurified and consecrated for Christian worship. Local customs were as far as possible \nto be retained\, days of dedication and feasts of martyrs being substituted for heathen \nfestivals. \nIn Canterbury itself St. Augustine rebuilt an ancient church which\, with an old \nwooden house\, formed the nucleus for his metropolitan basilica and for the later \nmonastery of Christ Church. These buildings stood on the site of the present cathedral \nbegun by Lanfranc in 1070. Outside the walls of Canterbury he made a monastic \nfoundation\, which he dedicated in honour of St. Peter and St. Paul. After his death this \nabbey became known as St. Augustine’s\, and was the burial place of the early \narchbishops. \nCut off from much communication with the outside world\, the British church \nclung to certain usages at variance with those of the Roman tradition. St. Augustine \ninvited the leading ecclesiastics to meet him at some place just on the confines of \nWessex\, still known in Bede’s day as Augustine’s Oak. There he urged them to comply \nwith the practices of the rest of Western Christendom\, and more especially to co- \noperate with him in evangelizing the Anglo-Saxons. Fidelity to their local traditions\, \nhowever\, made them unwilling. A second conference proved a said failure. Because \nSt. Augustine failed to rise when they arrived\, the British bishops decided that he was \nlacking in humility and would neither listen to him nor acknowledge him as their \nmetropolitan. \nThe saint’s last years were spent in spreading and consolidating the faith \nthroughout Ethelbert’s realm\, and episcopal sees were established at London and \nRochester. About seven years after his arrival in England\, St. Augustine passed to his \nreward\, on May 26\, 605. \n2Butler’s Lives of Saints. Harper\, 1991\, pp. 158-159.5 \n  \n 
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CATEGORIES:Vigils Readings
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SUMMARY:LCG Caritas Meeting
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URL:https://laycisterciansofgethsemani.org/event/lcg-caritas-meeting/
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