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 | | In the Kingdom of Kent, King Ethelbert's wife Bertha, a Christian Merovingian princess, had brought a chaplain with her and built or restored a church in Canterbury and dedicated it to St Martin of Tours, a major patron of the Merovingians. |
 | | Ethelbert held the largely honorific title of among the kingdoms, and the re-Christianisation of England spread in the south from Canterbury. |
 | | In 563 Saint Columba, exiled from his native Ireland, founded a monastery on the island of Iona in the Hebrides, and from there Christianity spread to the rest of Scotland and the north of England. |
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