Gregorian mission
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The Gregorian mission or Augustinian mission was a Christian mission sent by Pope Gregory the Great to England in 596 to convert the Anglo-Saxons. The mission was headed by Augustine of Canterbury. By
Portrait labelled "avgvstinvs" from the mid-8th century Saint Petersburg Bede, though perhaps intended as Gregory the Great
Gregory dictating, from a 10th-century manuscript
Site of the graves of Laurence, Mellitus and Justus at St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury
Ruins at Canterbury of St Augustine's Abbey, founded by Augustine.
Pope Gregory I
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Pope Gregory I, commonly known as Saint Gregory the Great, was the 64th Bishop of Rome from 3 September 590 until his death on 12 March 604.
Gregorian mission
…The Gregorian mission or Augustinian mission was a Christian mission sent by Pope Gregory the Great to England in 596 to convert the Anglo-Saxons. The mission was headed by Augustine of Canterbury. By the time of the death of the last missionary in…
Miniature of Gregory the Great writing, in a 12th-century copy of his Dialogues
Mosaic from the Cefalù Cathedral
Illumination in a 12th-century manuscript of a letter of Gregory's to Leander of Seville
Augustine of Canterbury on his mission to Anglo-Saxon England