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you air to a solemn reunion; for him it feared, it says Baeda to satisfy them among,
four walls, so that they should not practise spells on him. The foreigner
monks advanced in procession to the presence of the king, while singing psalms them
litanies, and visualizing a silver cross. AEthelberht almost produced to
once. All of its court and he became Cristiano; and the people, as it is
usual among Barbaric tribe, it quickly suited for the faith of them
rules. AEthelberht gave the missionaries they go away to build new churches, or
to mend the old men erected from the Cristiano Welsh. Augustine
he/she returned to Gaul, where he was consecrate as Archbishop of the English
nation, to Arles. Kent became since then a part of the great one
Continental System. Canterbury has remained since then the metropolis of
the Church English; and the modern archbishops trace again them
succession directly to St. Augustine.
For a few, the young Church seemed to make vigorous progress. Augustine
he/she built a convent to Canterbury, where AEthelberht founded a new church
TO SS. Pietro and Paul, to be a kind of Westminster Abbey for the graves
of all the kings of future Kentish and archbishops. He also restored an old man
Roman church in the city. The pope sent him sacramental vases, altar
cloths, ornaments, relics and, above all, many books. Ten years later,
Augustine widened his/her field of missionary ordering two new
bishops--Mellitus, to preach to the Saxons Est "which the metropolis,"
it says Baeda, "it is the city of London that is the market of a lot of nations,
resorting to him from sea and earth; " and Justuses to the episcopal see of
Kent of the west, with his/her bishop-stool to Rochester. The Saxons Est
nominally it accepted the faith to the offer of their end-gentleman,
AEthelberht; but the people of London remained pagans and long to heart. On
However, the death of Augustine every life seemed again to die out of the
mission in struggle. Laurentius that succeeded him/it also found him jobs