. The greater abbeys of England. nised kingdom. Ethel-bert was baptized in the year 597, probably in the oldchurch of St. Martin, used by Queen Bertha for Chris-tian worship before the coming of Augustine. Thischapel was situated in the suburbs of the city and with-out its walls, whilst near at hand, apparently, there wasa temple for the worship of the Saxon deities, which atthe request of Ethelbert, St. Augustine dedicated as aChristian church under the patronage of St. Pancras, theboy martyr of Rome. The spot was chosen outside thewalls in order that it might form the burial place forkings a
. The greater abbeys of England. nised kingdom. Ethel-bert was baptized in the year 597, probably in the oldchurch of St. Martin, used by Queen Bertha for Chris-tian worship before the coming of Augustine. Thischapel was situated in the suburbs of the city and with-out its walls, whilst near at hand, apparently, there wasa temple for the worship of the Saxon deities, which atthe request of Ethelbert, St. Augustine dedicated as aChristian church under the patronage of St. Pancras, theboy martyr of Rome. The spot was chosen outside thewalls in order that it might form the burial place forkings and prelates, since by Saxon and British as well asby Roman law burial within the city walls was pro-hibited. In this case the dedication to the boy St. Pan-cras was probably suggested by the memory of the Saxonyouths of the Roman forum who, according to the well-known story, induced Pope St. Gregory the Great tothink of the conversion of England. In the first instancethen, it would appear that the situation of St. Augustines [2]. S(>^* . MWJI?^. ?...^...-i4«»:U ••^w^mm-T-ut^Msni^f*^ ? ntT^i». .-TKi * ^ ?? *»?jir <« «^ ?? ??-»»-*^wwm GATEWAY, ST. AUGUSTINE S ABBEY, CANTERBURY ST. AUGUSTINES, CANTERBURY Abbey was chosen as the place of burial for kings, pre-lates and others. It was on the road to Rutupiae, theport of embarkation for Gaul, now Richborough, fromEthelberts capital, and it has been suggested that it wasintended to make an English Appian Way. In a very few years Ethelbert determined to establishin the same place a monastery under the patronage ofSS. Peter and Paul. This was in 605, but in 613 thechurch was dedicated to St. Laurence, and the body ofSt. Augustine was transported hither and buried in theporch. From this time the renown of the place increasedsince it became known as the burial place of the illus-trious dead; and almost from the first the monasterybecame known as St. Augustines Abbey. Its earlygreatness was undoubtedly due to the fa
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