Laurence of Canterbury
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Laurence was the second Archbishop of Canterbury, serving from about 604 to 619. He was a member of the Gregorian mission sent from Italy to England to Christianise the Anglo-Saxons from their native
Gravestone marking the site of Laurence's burial in St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury
The evangelist portrait of Luke, from the St. Augustine Gospels (c. 6th century), which were probably used by Laurence.
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.