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Bede relates the story of Augustine's mission from Rome, and tells how the British clergy refused to assist Augustine in the conversion of the Anglo-Saxons. This, combined with Gildas's negative assessment of the British church at the time of the Anglo-Saxon invasions, led Bede to a very critical view of the native church.
In the seventh century the pagan Anglo-Saxons were converted to Christianity (Old English: Crīstendōm) mainly by missionaries sent from Rome.Irish missionaries from Iona, who were proponents of Celtic Christianity, were influential in the conversion of Northumbria, but after the Synod of Whitby in 664, the Anglo-Saxon church gave its allegiance to the Pope.
The following list contains saints from Anglo-Saxon England during the period of Christianization until the Norman Conquest of England (c. AD 600 to 1066). It also includes British saints of the Roman and post-Roman period (3rd to 6th centuries), and other post-biblical saints who, while not themselves English, were strongly associated with particular religious houses in Anglo-Saxon England ...
Eleven other Anglo-Saxon (and two later) psalters with Old English glosses are known. [9] [10] The earliest are probably the early-9th-century red glosses of the Blickling Psalter (Morgan Library & Museum, M.776). [11] [12] The latest Old English gloss is contained in the 12th-century Eadwine Psalter. [13]
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records that in 656 Wulfhere of Mercia ordered the priest Eoppa to preach in Wihtwara. [165] It later states that in 661, Wulfhere attacked Wihtwara, taking control of it and giving it to Æthelwalh of Sussex to rule as a baptism present.
Pope Gregory sent more missionaries in 601, along with encouraging letters and gifts for the churches, although attempts to persuade the native British bishops to submit to Augustine's authority failed. Roman bishops were established at London, and Rochester in 604, and a school was founded to train Anglo-Saxon priests and
The Anglo-Saxons gradually converted following the Gregorian mission sent by Pope Gregory the Great in 595, [14] as well as the Hiberno-Scottish mission from the north-west. Pope Gregory I sent the first Archbishop of Canterbury , Augustine , to southern England in 597.
Willibrord (Latin: Villibrordus; [1] c. 658 – 7 November AD 739) was an Anglo-Saxon monk, bishop, and missionary. He became the first Bishop of Utrecht in what is now the Netherlands, dying at Echternach in Luxembourg, and is known as the "Apostle to the Frisians".