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.
Justus
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Justus was the fourth archbishop of Canterbury. Pope Gregory the Great sent Justus from Italy to England on a mission to Christianise the Anglo-Saxons from their native paganism; he probably arrived w
The evangelist portrait of Luke, from the St Augustine Gospels (c. 6th century), which may have accompanied Justus to Britain
The beginning of the charter in Textus Roffensis
Modern gravestone marking the burial site of Justus in St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury