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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture > Augustine of Canterbury (d. 604) Augustine was prior of Gregory the > Great's monastery in Rome when Greg. picked him to lead a mass > missionary effort of 40 monks to evangelize the Anglo-Saxons. Gussie > arrived in Kent in 597 and had considerable success, although his > efforts were marred by his failure to establish a relationship with > the British Christian leadership already there. Gus and Gregory are > venerated together as the "apostles of the English"---a very > Romanocentric notion. That's a rather Romophobic take on the events! The Venemous Bead (author of the Rosary) tells us that Augustine summoned the bishops and teachers of the neighbouring British kingdom to a conference at a place which (in Bede's time) was still called in English 'Augustine's Oak'. There he proceeded to urge them with brotherly admonitions, that they should preserve catholic peace with him and undertake the joint labour of evangelizing the heathen for the Lord's sake. After a long dispute they were unwilling, in spite of the prayers, exhortations, and rebukes of Augustine and his companions to give their assent, preferring their own traditions to those in which all the churches throughout the world agree in Christ. That was surely their failure, not Augustine's. Bill. ===== ____________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" your friends today! Download Messenger Now http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/download/index.html ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html