List of members of the Gregorian mission
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List of members of the Gregorian mission
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The Gregorian mission was a group of Italian monks and priests sent by Pope Gregory the Great to Britain in the late 6th and early 7th centuries to convert and Christianize the Anglo-Saxons from their native Anglo-Saxon paganism. The first group consisted of about 40 monks and priests, some of whom had been monks in Gregory's own monastery in Rome. After a long trip, during which they almost gave up and returned to Rome, they arrived in the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Kent in 597. Gregory sent a seco
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Italian monks and priests sent by Pope Gregory the Great to Britain in the 7th century
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2023-09-28T10:26:01Z
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