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  Augustine of Canterbury - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ethelbert's wife 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.
Ethelbert himself was a pagan, but allowed his wife to worship God her own way.
Ethelbert permitted the missionaries to settle and preach in his town of Canterbury and before the end of the year he was converted and Augustine was consecrated bishop at Arles.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Augustine_of_Canterbury   (506 words)

  
 Ethelbert of Kent at opensource encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The influence of Berthe, who had brought her chaplain Liuhard (or Letard) with her to Kent, may have led to the invitation to Pope Gregory I to send missionaries from Rome.
Ethelbert also established a written code of laws for Kent, the earliest in any Anglo-Saxon kingdom, which provided for the protection of the Church and instituted a complex system of fines.
Ethelbert was later canonised for his role in restoring Christianity to England.
www.wiki.tatet.com /Ethelbert_of_Kent.html   (421 words)

  
 Saint Patrick's Church: Saints of February 25
To Ethelbert and his people she brought the pattern and example of a Christian life and prepared the way for the coming of Augustine (Austin).
Ethelbert feared that the missionaries might be magicians, so he would not receive them indoors, in case he needed to retreat quickly from their sorcery.
From that time, Ethelbert was changed into another man. His only ambition during the last 20 years of his life was to establish the perfect reign of Christ in his own soul and in the hearts of his subjects.
www.saintpatrickdc.org /ss/0225.htm   (4510 words)

  
 Family Ancestry
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.
www.family-ancestry.co.uk /Medieval-Britain.htm   (1762 words)

  
 TIMELINE 6th CENTURY page of ULTIMATE SCIENCE FICTION WEB GUIDE
In this year Ethelbert, the son of Ermenric, was born, who on the two and thirtieth year of his reign received the rite of baptism, the first of all the kings in Britain." [ASC] 553 Fifth Ecumenical Council held at Constantinople.
This year Ethelbert came to the kingdom of the Cantuarians, and held it fifty-three winters.
Instead, the council asserted, he "was originally a good angel created by God." Google's cache of The Sixth Century 565 End of the reign of Emperor Justinian.
www.magicdragon.com /UltimateSF/timeline6.html   (8032 words)

  
 St Ethelbert and other catholic saints, patron saints, all saints, catholic saint names, catholic saint pictures
In the year 600 St Gregory the Great sent St Ethelbert a letter and gifts, congratulating him on his zeal for religion and giving him...
Ethelbert A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z St. Ethelbert King of Kent; b.
SAINT ETHELBERT, KING OF KENT Saint Ethelbert seems to us now to be a legendary figure lost in the mists of time, though he is certainly one of the very first Englishmen to be reckoned a...
www.all-catholic-saints.info /St-Ethelbert.html   (416 words)

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