Parish priests and their people in the middle ages in England . to King Ethelbert, who had marrieda Christian princess of the House of Clovis, and werepermitted by him to settle and preach in his kingdom ;how King Oswald, on his recovery of his ancestralkingdom of Northumbria, sent to the Fathers of lona,among whom he had learnt Christianity during hisexile, for missionaries to convert his people; howSigcbert, King of the East Saxons, and Peada, sub-King of the Middle Angles in Mercia, obtainedmissionaries from Northumbria ; how Sigebert, Kingof the East Angles, invited Bishop Felix to give to
Parish priests and their people in the middle ages in England . to King Ethelbert, who had marrieda Christian princess of the House of Clovis, and werepermitted by him to settle and preach in his kingdom ;how King Oswald, on his recovery of his ancestralkingdom of Northumbria, sent to the Fathers of lona,among whom he had learnt Christianity during hisexile, for missionaries to convert his people; howSigcbert, King of the East Saxons, and Peada, sub-King of the Middle Angles in Mercia, obtainedmissionaries from Northumbria ; how Sigebert, Kingof the East Angles, invited Bishop Felix to give tohis people the religion and civilization which he hadlearnt in exile in Burgundy ; how the Italian Bishop THE CONVERSION OF THE ENGLISH. Birinus came to the Court of King Cynegils, andconverted him, and taught among the men of Wessex ;and, finally, how Wilfrid of York began the conversionof the South Saxons. In the Apostolic Age, the conversion of people ina condition of ancient civilization began among thelower classes of the people, and ascended slowly man. The Ruined Cathedral, lona. by man through the higher classes, and it was threehundred years before the conversion of the EmperorConstantine made Christianity the religion of theempire. In the conversion of the Anglo-Saxonkingdoms, the work began in every case with thekings and the higher classes of the people; and thepeople under their leadership abandoned their oldreligion and accepted Christianity as the national 16 PAhlSH PRIESTS AND THEIR PEOPLE. religion, and put themselves under the teaching of themissionaries, as a general measure of national explanation of this probably is that theirTeutonic kinsmen, Goths, Burgundians, and Franks,who had carved for themselves kingdoms out of thebodyof the Roman empire,having accepted the religionand the civilization of the people they had conquered,were growing rapidly in prosperity and the arts ofcivilized life. Christianity was the religion of the newTeutonic civiliz
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