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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - St Augustine of Canterbury
DESCRIPTION:ST AUGUSTINE \nARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY \nFrom Butler’s Lives of the Saints \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 \nmore monks from his monastery of St Andrew… As their leader he gave them \ntheir own prior\, Augustine. The party set out from Rome in the year 596; but no \nsooner had they arrived in Provence than they were assailed with warnings \nabout the ferocity of the Anglo-Saxons and the dangers of the Channel. Greatly \ndiscouraged\, they persuaded Augustine to return to Rome and obtain leave to \nabandon the enterprise. St Gregory\, however\, had received definite assurance \nthat the English were well disposed towards the Christian faith; he therefore \nsent Augustine back to his brethren with words of encouragement which gave \nthem heart to proceed on their way. \nThey landed in the Isle of Thanet in the territory of Ethelbert\, king of \nKent\, who was baptized at Pentecost 597. Almost immediately afterwards St \nAugustine paid a visit to France\, where he was consecrated bishop of the English \nby St Virgilius\, metropolitan of Arles. At Christmas of that same year\, many of \nEthelbert’s subjects were baptized… Augustine sent two of his monks\, Laurence \nand Peter\, to Rome to give a full report of his mission\, to ask for more helpers \nand obtain advice on various points. They came back bringing the pallium for \nAugustine and accompanied by a fresh band of missionaries\, amongst whom \nwere St Mellitus\, St Justus and St Paulinus. \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 \npractical instructions on other points. Pagan temples were not to be destroyed\, \nbut were to be purified and consecrated for Christian worship. Local customs \nwere as far as possible to be retained\, days of dedication and feasts of martyrs \nbeing substituted for heathen festivals. In Canterbury itself St Augustine rebuilt \nan ancient church which\, with an old wooden house\, formed the nucleus for his \nmetropolitan basilica and for the later monastery of Christ Church. These \nbuildings stood on the site of the present cathedral begun by Lanfranc in 1070. \nOutside the walls of Canterbury he made a monastic foundation\, which he \ndedicated in honour of St Peter and St Paul. After his death this abbey became \nknown as St Augustine’s\, and was the burial place of the early archbishops. \nCut off from much communication with the outside world\, the British \nchurch clung to certain usages at variance with those of the Roman tradition. \nSt. Augustine invited the leading ecclesiastics to meet him at some place just on \nthe confines of Wessex\, still known in Bede’s day as Augustine’s Oak. There he \nurged them to comply with the practices of the rest of Western Christendom\, \nand more especially to co-operate with him in evangelizing the Anglo-Saxons. \nFidelity to their local traditions\, however\, made them unwilling. A second \nconference proved a failure. Because St Augustine failed to rise when they \narrived\, the British bishops decided that he was lacking in humility and would \nneither listen to him nor acknowledge him as their metropolitan. \nThe saint’s last years were spent in spreading and consolidating the faith \nthroughout Ethelbert’s realm\, and episcopal sees were established at London \nand Rochester. About seven years after his arrival in England\, St Augustine \npassed to his reward\, on May 26\, 605.
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CATEGORIES:Vigils Readings
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