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  2. Gregorian mission - Wikipedia

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    The Gregorian mission [1] or Augustinian mission [2] was a Christian mission sent by Pope Gregory the Great in 596 to convert Britain's Anglo-Saxons. [3] The mission was headed by Augustine of Canterbury .

  3. List of members of the Gregorian mission - Wikipedia

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    The Gregorian mission was a group of Italian monks and priests sent by Pope Gregory the Great to Britain in the late 6th and early 7th centuries to convert and Christianize the Anglo-Saxons from their native Anglo-Saxon paganism. [1] The first group consisted of about 40 monks and priests, some of whom had been monks in Gregory's own monastery ...

  4. Augustine of Canterbury - Wikipedia

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    Sources make no mention of why Pope Gregory chose a monk to head the mission. Pope Gregory once wrote to Æthelberht complimenting Augustine's knowledge of the Bible, so Augustine was evidently well educated. Other qualifications included administrative ability, for Gregory was the abbot of St Andrews as well as being pope, which left the day ...

  5. Pope Gregory I - Wikipedia

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    Pope Gregory I (Latin: Gregorius I; c. 540 – 12 March 604), commonly known as Saint Gregory the Great, was the 64th Bishop of Rome from 3 September 590 to his death. [1] [a] He is known for instituting the first recorded large-scale mission from Rome, the Gregorian mission, to convert the then largely pagan Anglo-Saxons to Christianity. [2]

  6. Christianisation of Anglo-Saxon England - Wikipedia

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    Gregory dictating, from a 10th-century manuscript. Around 150 years after the last recorded appeal from Britons to Roman authorities for help, in 597, the Gregorian mission was launched. [9] [25] It was led by Augustine and included Frankish interpreters and around 40 monks.

  7. Mellitus - Wikipedia

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    Gregory also wrote to the Frankish kings Chlothar II, Theuderic II, Theudebert II, along with Brunhilda of Austrasia, who was Theudebert and Theuderic's grandmother and regent. Wood feels that this wide appeal to the Frankish episcopate and royalty was an effort to secure more support for the Gregorian mission. [14]

  8. Liber beatae Gregorii papae - Wikipedia

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    The first part of the text (chapters 1-11) describe Gregory's birth, early career, and his teaching. It proceeds to the earliest account of a story in which Gregory meets some English boys on sale as slaves and decides, on the basis of their beauty, to convert the English to Christianity, and thus to tell of the Gregorian mission to England.

  9. Category:Gregorian mission - Wikipedia

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