Guide to StAugustine's monastery and missionary college .. . pation. TheChurch was completed and consecrated by ArchbishopLawrence, in 613, in the presence of the King and hisCourt, and was dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul: wasre-dedicated by Archbishop Dunstan, in 971, to St. Peterand St. Paul and St. Augustine. As late however as 1325,when the High Altar was dedicated afresh, St. Peter andSt. Paul were still enumerated at the head of a list ofSaints who were supposed to exercise (\special patronagewithin the sacred enclosure. But it was generally knownas the Abbey of St. Augustine. • The
Guide to StAugustine's monastery and missionary college .. . pation. TheChurch was completed and consecrated by ArchbishopLawrence, in 613, in the presence of the King and hisCourt, and was dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul: wasre-dedicated by Archbishop Dunstan, in 971, to St. Peterand St. Paul and St. Augustine. As late however as 1325,when the High Altar was dedicated afresh, St. Peter andSt. Paul were still enumerated at the head of a list ofSaints who were supposed to exercise (\special patronagewithin the sacred enclosure. But it was generally knownas the Abbey of St. Augustine. • The main object of Ethclbert and Augustine was tofound in the new Monastery an appropriate burial place,not only for themselves but for their successors in all futureages; the site was chosen some distance from the cityand inclosed within its walls an old Roman or Saxoncemetery. On the completion of the Church the re-mains of were brought from the open cemeterywhere they had been first interred, and placed in the * See Lives of the English ST. AUGUSTINE S MONASTERY. Northern porch, which from that time became the buryingplace of the Archbishops of Canterbury till the timeof Theodore and Berthwald, who were buried furtherwithin the Church, while the bodies of Queen Bertha andher Confessor Luidhard, who pre-deceased the King,were buried in the porch of St. Martin, and on the deathof the King he was also buried there The ChristianKings of Kent who succeeded him, and nearly seventyAbbots of the Monastery, were buried within the precinctsof the Church. St. Augustines tomb bore the followingsimple inscription in the days of Bede :— Here resteth the Lord Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury, who erewhile was sent hither by Blessed** Gregory, Bishop of the City of Rome, and being helped by God to work miracles, drew over King Ethelbert and* his race from the worship of idols to the faith of Christ.** Having ended in peace the days of his ministry, he departed h
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