Paulinus was a Roman missionary and the first Bishop of York. A member of the Gregorian mission sent in 601 by Pope Gregory I to Christianize the Anglo-Saxons from their native Anglo-Saxon paganism, P
Statue at Rochester Cathedral
Chad was a prominent 7th-century Anglo-Saxon monk. He was an abbot, Bishop of the Northumbrians and then Bishop of the Mercians and Lindsey People. After his death he was known as a saint.
Paulinus of York
…Saint Paulinus Bishop of York Statue at Rochester Cathedral Appointed 627 Term ended 633 Predecessor Founder Successor Chad Orders Consecration 21 July 625 by Justus Personal details Died 10 October 644 Rochester, Kingdom of Kent Buried Rochester Cathedral Sainthood Feast…
Stained glass depiction from Saint Chad's Church in Hanmer, Maelor, Wales
From a late copy of The old Englisch Homely on the life of St. Chad, c. 1200, in the Bodleian Library, Oxford
The altar in the crypt of the Church of St Mary, Lastingham, probable site of the early Anglo-Saxon church where Cedd and Chad officiated at Eucharist
The Lichfield Angel, a part of his Anglo-Saxon shrine in Lichfield Cathedral