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Augustine of Canterbury
Our father among the saints Augustine of Canterbury (d. May 26, 605) was a Benedictine monk and the first Archbishop of Canterbury.
His feast day is May 26.
Life
The wife of King Ethelbert of Kent, called Bertha, daughter of Charibert, one of the Merovingian kings of the Franks, had brought a chaplain with her (Liudhard) and either built a church or restored a church in Canterbury from Roman times and dedicated it to St.
Martin of Tours, a major patronal saint for the Merovingian royal family.
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Ethelbert himself was a pagan, but allowed his wife to worship God her own way. Probably under influence of his wife, Ethelbert asked Pope Gregory I to send missionaries.
In 596, Augustine had been prior of the monastery of Saint Andrew, founded by Pope Gregory I, and was sent by Gregory at the head of forty monks to preach to the Anglo-Saxons.
They lost heart on the way and Augustine went back to Rome from Provence and asked that