Methods of early Christian missionary work . little wattled cells or huts and surroundedthese huts with a trench or wall of earth. In Irelandthe plan was also different from the monastic type, Herethey actually built churches, most often in groups of seven,as representative of the Apocalyptic Church of Asia. Thesechurches were built of earth and were homes, rather thanplaces of The workers who went into the less —oooo— 1. Irish workers went out in bands of twelve disciples andone leader. St. Columba with twelve brethren to Hy in Scotland A. D. Columoanus with twelve to France
Methods of early Christian missionary work . little wattled cells or huts and surroundedthese huts with a trench or wall of earth. In Irelandthe plan was also different from the monastic type, Herethey actually built churches, most often in groups of seven,as representative of the Apocalyptic Church of Asia. Thesechurches were built of earth and were homes, rather thanplaces of The workers who went into the less —oooo— 1. Irish workers went out in bands of twelve disciples andone leader. St. Columba with twelve brethren to Hy in Scotland A. D. Columoanus with twelve to France and Germany A. D* Kilian with twelve to Pranconia in A. D. Willebrord with twelve to Friesland A. D. Reeves, St. Columoa, Intro., p. 71,From Italy forty Benedictine monks set outwith Augustine, to go to England. Catholic Encyclopedia: v. 2, p. 82. 2. Eckenstein, itfomen under Monasticism: p. 13. For Reference see G-ildas, Epistles, c. 66. 3. Stokes, Tripartite Life of Patrick, Preface, p. 157. Roll Series, 89. 1. -21- remote places in England and Europe, built regular monasticcenters. They were in the form of villages witn woodenhuts, a church, a common eating hall, a mill, and acommon garden, about whioh was built a wall either of earthor stone.^ Such places served as centers for education andfor all the evangelistic work that was carried on in thesurrounding district. Within these villages the secular activitiesof the monks can be seen. Here as no where else we havepictures of the common and ordinary life of tne purely religious side of the monastic life has beengreatly overestimated, for the monks were as human as weare, and had they not enjoyed other worldly opportunities,the monastic life could not possibly have spread so were numerous, and extremely rigid, and yet the veryfact that these rules were needed seems to prove that lifein the monastery had more than the religious side. It was for the missionary to organize t
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