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>Today, 28 May, is the feast of ... >* Augustine, archbishop of Canterbury (c. 605) - head of group sent by >pope Gregory I to evangelize Anglo-Saxon England - feast celebrated in >England and Wales on 26 May, the date of his death [according to Butler >and the Catholic Encylopedia Augustine's feast day in the Roman Calendar >is kept on the 28 May; but in the proper of the English office it occurs >two days earlier, the true anniversary of his death] And (just to be difficult) the English monks keep him on 27 May. Yesterday we had 3-400 monks and nuns singing his Vespers (more Gregoriano) in Canterbury Cathedral, jointly presided by Abp Carey and Cardinal Hume. Irony also of Cd Pole, lying there quietly under his slab... a.c. Anselm Cramer OSB Ampleforth Abbey, York GB - YO6 4EN [log in to unmask] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%