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  Augustine of Canterbury
Augustine of Canterbury (birth unknown, died May 26, 604) was the first Archbishop of Canterbury, sent to Ethelbert of Kent, Bretwalda of England by Pope Gregory the Great in 597.
He was accompanied by Laurence of Canterbury, the second archbishop.
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.
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 Archbishop of Canterbury Info - Bored Net - Boredom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of All England is the spiritual head of the Church of England.
Since Henry VIII broke with Rome, archbishops of Canterbury have been selected by the English (latterly British) monarch; at present, the choice is made in his or her name, but by the prime minister, from a shortlist of two selected by a committee of clergy and laity.
The first Archbishop of Canterbury was Saint Augustine of Canterbury, who arrived in Kent in 597, all Archbishops of Canterbury since have been referred to as occupying the Chair of St Augustine.
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 Laurence Jackson
Laurence Jackson's early talents were nurtured at Chetham's School of Music before he gained a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music in London in 1984 where he studied with Emanuel Hurwitz, Maurice Hasson and Anne-Sophie Mutter.
Laurence was appointed leader of the Maggini Quartet in 1994, with which he has toured throughout the USA, Canada and Europe to much critical acclaim.
Laurence is an Honorary Fellow of both Brunel University, London and Canterbury Christ Church University College and he was awarded an ARAM in 1998.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Canterbury
Diocese of Canterbury was the Mother-Church and Primatial See of All England, from 597 till the death of the last Catholic Archbishop, Cardinal Pole, in 1558.
Canterbury, and reorganized the arrangement of property, dividing off that of the archbishop from that of the monastery, with the result that from that
Canterbury became absorbed in the wider duties of primate, as is seen in the episcopate of St.
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 The Laurie Tartan Company
The most frequently held belief is that Laurie is a diminutive of Laurence, which in turn is thought to derive from the Latin Laurentius meaning "of Laurentum".
Laurence the only remaining deacon and church archivist was put to death on 10th August 258AD.
St Laurence of Canterbury accompanied St Augustine to England on his mission to convert the Anglo Saxons to Christianity.
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 St. Laurence of Canterbury.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
He was one of the companions of St. Augustine on the mission from Rome in 597, and at first acted as an emissary, reporting to and from Pope St. Gregory the Great, and carrying the latter’s instructions on organisation of the English church.
Several of the early missionaries, including St. Mellitus and St. Justus, withdrew to France, and Laurence was tempted to join them until, so the Venerable Bede tells us, he had a dream in which St. Peter gave him a sound thrashing for trying to evade his responsibilities.
Laurence was buried in the Canterbury monastery of SS.
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 Dublin Diocese Jubilee AD2000: St Laurence O Toole
Laurence was only 25 when he was elected Abbot, and he proved to be the greatest Abbot of Glendalough since St Kevin its founder.
Laurence met Strongbow to arrange a peace but the Normans attacked while the talks were going on.
Laurence saved the lives of many by the sheer force of his presence and he carried the bodies of others in his own arms to be buried.
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 Laurence of Canterbury - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Saint Laurence of Canterbury (died February 3, 619) was the second Archbishop of Canterbury.
During Laurence's office, Ethelbert died (616) and his son Eadbald returned to the old faiths and many prominent missionaries fled to Gaul.
The tale is that Laurence had been prepared to give up when he was visited by St.
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 Saint Patrick's Church: Saints of February 3
Canterbury claimed his relics, and at least four miracles were said to have occurred at his shrine, one dated 1451.
Laurence was ordained to the priesthood in Rome and sent to preach in Umbria, where he founded a monastery near Spoleto.
As archbishop of Canterbury, Laurence followed Augustine's policy of consolidation in the southeast of Britain and attempted cooperation with the British bishops in the conversion of the Anglo-Saxons.
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 Justus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Justus was the first bishop of Rochester and fourth archbishop of Canterbury.
In 617 during the heathen reaction under Eadbald, with Mellitus he fled into Gaul, but was recalled after a year and restored to his bishopric (see Laurence of Canterbury).
He succeeded Mellitus as archbishop in 624, consecrated Romanus as his successor at Rochester, and sent Paulinus to Northumbria.
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 St Laurence - St Laurence News
St Laurence Limited recently acquired several of the St Laurence group’s wider businesses and management contracts, putting them under the one umbrella of St Laurence Limited with the intention to increase transparency and further strengthen the group’s financial position.
Debenture stockholders for St Laurence Mortgages were asked to vote on related changes to the company’s Trust Deed at a special meeting on 19 September, and overwhelmingly supported these with 99% of the votes in favour.
St Laurence Mortgages will change its name to "St Laurence Limited" reflecting the wider range of activities to be undertaken by the new entity, and will become the central operating vehicle for the St Laurence group.
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 Augustine of Canterbury Summary
This monastic practice of daily rounds of worship, meditation, farm work, preaching, works of mercy, and operation of a school for the sons of the leading families of the area was to become an influential instrument in the conversion of England.
Augustine of Canterbury (birth unknown, died May 26, 604) was the first Archbishop of Canterbury, sent to Ethelbert of Kent, Bretwalda of England by Pope Gregory the Great in 597.
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.
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 Jacobs, Laurence
Laurence Jacobs is a partner in the firm’s Technology Transactions and Outsourcing Group based in London, having previously headed the outsourcing practice at a “magic circle” firm in London.
Laurence has wide experience in a wide range of IT and business process outsourcing and also of strategic alliances, joint ventures and projects in this sector.
Laurence qualified as an English solicitor in 1990, became a partner at Allen and Overy in 1997 and joined Milbank as a partner in 2004.
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 WesternOrthodox.com - St. Laurence   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
E beseech thee, O Lord, graciously to hear the prayers which we offer unto thee on the solemnity of blessed Laurence, thy Confessor and Bishop: that, like as he was found to to do thee faithful service, so by his intercession we may be absolved from all our sins.
The death of King Ethelbert, in 616 was followed by a heathen reaction under his son Eadbald, and under the sons of Sebert who became kings of the East Saxons.
They departed, and he, discouraged by the undoing of St. Augustine's work, was preparing to follow them, when St. Peter appeared to him in a vision, blaming him for thinking of leaving his flock and inflicting stripes upon him.
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 Augustine of Canterbury, Saint - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
A Roman monk, he was sent to England, as the head of some 40 monks, by Pope St. Gregory I. Arriving in 597, they were well received by King Æthelbert, who was converted by Augustine, thus making him the first Christian king in Anglo-Saxon England.
Augustine's mission, introducing the more flexible and organized Roman usages, was resented by Celtic monks of the British isles, whose austerities were disparate and more severe and who kept a different date of Easter.
The pardoner in Canterbury: class, gender, and urban space in the Prologue to the Tale of Beryn.(Canterbury Tales)(Critical essay)
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 Archbishop of Canterbury - OrthodoxWiki
The Archbishop of Canterbury is the primate of the Church of England and the spiritual head of the Anglican Communion.
The current Archbishop of Canterbury is the Right Honorable and Most Reverend Rowan Williams, 104th successor to the Chair of St. Augustine of Canterbury.
He chose a to send a group of Benedictine monks, under the leadership of St. Augustine of Canterbury (not to be confused with Augustine of Hippo).
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 Augustine
Augustine of Canterbury (birth unknown, died May 26, 604 (traditional) or 605 (Thorn)) was the first Archbishop of Canterbury, sent to Ethelbert of Kent, Bretwalda of England by Pope Gregory the Great in 597.
In 596, Augustine was praepositus (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.
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. Martin of Tours, a major patronal saint for the Merovingian royal family.
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 EBK: St. Laurence, Archbishop of Canterbury   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Laurence was one of the band of missionaries who accompanied St. Augustine of Canterbury to England from Rome in AD 597.
Augustine chose Laurence to succeed him during his own lifteime: an unusual, though not unheard of, situtaion.
He eventually became Archbishop in AD 604; when he endeavoured, without much success, to conciliate the ancient Church of Britain and Scotland and encourage the former to help in the conversion of the Saxons.
www.earlybritishkingdoms.com /adversaries/bios/laurence.html   (185 words)

  
 Britannia Biographies: St. Laurence, Archbishop of Canterbury
Laurence was one of the band of missionaries who accompanied St. Augustine of Canterbury to England from Rome in AD 597.
Augustine chose Laurence to succeed him during his own lifteime: an unusual, though not unheard of, situtaion.
After the death of King Aethelberht of Kent, a heathen reaction set in and Bede relates that Laurence was only deterred from leaving the country by a vision of St. Peter who rebuked and chastised him.
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 Laurence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Laurence Godfrey (archer), athlete from the United Kingdom
Laurence Godfrey (physics lecturer), regular and controversial contributor to the Usenet newsgroups 'soc.culture.british' and 'soc.culture.canada'
Laurence of Canterbury, the second Archbishop of Canterbury
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 Augustine of Canterbury - OrthodoxWiki
May 26, 605) was a Benedictine monk and the first Archbishop of Canterbury.
He was accompanied by Laurence of Canterbury, the second archbishop, and other Benedictine monks, and they landed on the Island of Thanet in the spring of 597.
Augustine reconsecrated and rebuilt an old church at Canterbury as his cathedral and founded a monastery in connection with it.
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 Canterbury Festival
Canterbury has a long history of Festivals, which dates back to the 1920's and 30's.
In 1929, the Dean of Canterbury Cathedral, George Bell established the first Festival, which was closely linked with the newly formed Friends of Canterbury Cathedral organisation.
Over the next ten years, the Canterbury Festival continued to flourish with plays commissioned from John Masefield, Laurence Binyon, Dorothy Sayers, Christopher Fry and notably T.S. Eliot in 1935 with 'Murder in the Cathedral'.
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 EBK: St. Mellitus, Archbishop of Canterbury   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Mellitus was sent to England in AD 601 by Pope Gregory in response to an appeal from St. Augustine of Canterbury for a fresh band of missionaries.
He was driven from London by the heathen sons of King Sebert of Essex, in consequence of his refusal to give them the sacramental bread unless they consented to be baptised.
He fled to Gaul but was recalled by St. Laurence of Canterbury, upon whose death, in AD 619, he succeeded to the Archbishopric of Canterbury, and died on 24th April AD 624.
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 Amazon.com: A Canterbury Tale - Criterion Collection: DVD: Eric Portman,Sheila Sim,Dennis Price,Sergeant John ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
One of the most intellectually complex of all the films of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, "The Archers," A CANTERBURY TALE was intended to boost morale during the war concerning British and American relations during the preparations for the D-Day invasion of the continent.
The tremendous closing sequence of the film involving the organ of the Canterbury Cathedral is one of the most striking evocations of the sublime in the history of film.
It's a charmingly resilient morale booster too, avoiding obvious propaganda to give a sense of a world with a past worth preserving and a future proudly stated in the bombed out basements of old shops proudly carrying their former owners' signs, made at a time when victory was still just a far off possibility.
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 Amazon.ca: The Olden Days Coat: Books: Margaret Laurence,Muriel Wood   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Searching through the old photographs she comes across a little girl’s winter coat, tries it on, and finds herself transported into the past where she makes an unexpected connection to her heritage and her grandmother.
This model tale of time travel was one of Margaret Laurence’s few forays into children’s literature and has remained a favourite of children of all ages.
Her books are printed in many languages and are required reading on many university courses around the world.
www.amazon.ca /Olden-Days-Coat-Margaret-Laurence/dp/0887767044   (487 words)

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