Today is the feast day of Augustine of Canterbury...
When he was chosen by Pope Gregory the Great to lead forty monks in Anglo-Saxon
evangelization, Augustine sailed in Kent in A.D. 597 and soon had baptized Ethelbert, king of Kent, and thousands of other new Christians. Since Britain had been home to Christianity for several centuries, this was not an entirely new venture. In fact, Ethelbert's French-born wife, Queen Bertha, was already Christian.
Augustine is considered a patron saint of England.
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