Dedications to Saints in Medieval Scotland

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ST/JD/107

Augustine of Canterbury

Gender
Male
Floruit (period)
None
Floruit date range
? - 26/04/604
Description
Apostle of the English. He was leader of the first official Christian mission to the Anglo-Saxons. He was sent by Pope Gregory the Great, arrived in Kent in 597, and became the first archbishop of Canterbury. ODS, 36-7; ODNB, 'Augustine'; Bede, HE, i.23-ii.3; M. Deanesly, Augustine of Canterbury (1964); N. Brooks, The Early History of the Church of Canterbury: Christ Church from 597 to 1066 (1984); H. Mayr-Harting, The Coming of Christianity to Anglo-Saxon England (1972).
Categories
major type minor type confidence notes
Confessor Bishop 100 None
ethnicity
ethnicity description confidence notes
no ethnicity available
feast days
month day fixed? description notes
5 26 yes St Augustine of Canterbury None
9 13 yes Translation of St Augustine None
symbolic attributes
attribute notes
no attributes given
specialist associations
association notes
no specialist associations