Britain's First Missionary: St. Augustine of Canterbury and His Companions and it was doubtless during

and it was doubtless during the absence of their leader on this occasion that

who was to become the first abbot of Canterbury

writing in the heart of industrial England

arguing that true authority is born not from abstract theory but divine providence and historical continuity

Saint Pius X by Frances Forbes is the clear

Britain's First Missionary: St. Augustine of Canterbury and His Companions and it was doubtless duringIn, Britain's First Missionary, Fr. Brou details the establishment of the Catholic Church in the British Isles headed by St. Augustine of Canterbury and his companions. Excerpt: The companions with whom he had started on his own abortive expedition were still there. Gregory's example had fired their zeal, and so forty were found who under the inspiration of God's grace offered themselves for the work. At their head was Augustine, prior to the convent,