Guide to St Augustines Monastery And Missionary College

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: H Sbort HccoutU ot tbe Ibistorp of St. Huoustine's flDonasterp. HE history of the Abbey of St. Augustine dates from the earliest years of the reintroduction of Christianity into this part of Britain by the Missionaries of St. Gregory. The Christians of the earlier times had been driven westward to the fastnesses of- Wales and Cornwall by successive waves of foreign invasions, and a clear field was thus left open in East Anglia for the labours of the new comers. It was some time between the autumn of 596 and the early spring of the year 597 that Augustine and his companions (increased by the addition of the interpreters,whom they had taken up in France, to the number of forty persons) first set foot on English ground. At what point of the long range of lowlands they disembarked is not positively known, but