Britain's First Missionary: St. Augustine of Canterbury and His Companions

Britain's First Missionary: St. Augustine of Canterbury and His CompanionsIn, Britain's First Missionary, Fr. Brou details the establishment of the Catholic Church in the British Isles headed by St. Augustine of Canterbury and his companions. Excerpt: The companions with whom he had started on his own abortive expedition were still there. Gregory's example had fired their zeal, and so forty were found who under the inspiration of God's grace offered themselves for the work. At their head was Augustine, prior to the convent,

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What gives this volume its potency is both style and restraint

One of their first halting-places in Gaul was the great monastery of Lerins

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