. Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance. to the most remote nationsof the earth. To this great pope appertains the glory of having converted England by menns of themissionaries whom he sent thither. There is nothing grander in the history of Europe, said Bossuet, than the entry of St. Augustine into Kent with forty of his companions, who, preceded by the cross and image of the Great King our Lord Jesus Christ, prayed fervently for the conversion of England. St. Gregory, who had sent them forth, edified them by truly apostolic letters, and constrain
. Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance. to the most remote nationsof the earth. To this great pope appertains the glory of having converted England by menns of themissionaries whom he sent thither. There is nothing grander in the history of Europe, said Bossuet, than the entry of St. Augustine into Kent with forty of his companions, who, preceded by the cross and image of the Great King our Lord Jesus Christ, prayed fervently for the conversion of England. St. Gregory, who had sent them forth, edified them by truly apostolic letters, and constrained St. Augustine to tremble with amazement at the numerous miracles which God wrought through him. Bertha, a French princess, brought her hus-band, King Ethelbert, over to Christianity. The kings of France and Queen Brunehild supported this new mission. The French bishops entered cordially into this good work, and, by order of the pope, they consecrated St. Augustine. The support which St. Gregory gave to the new bishop bore abundant fruit, and the Anglican Church was thus formed.*. Fig. 207. —St Michael the Archangel,Minister of God, offering to a Byzan-tine Emperor the glohe surmountedby the cross, the symbol of theimperial power.—A. leaf of anivory dyptic or tablet of the SixthCentury, preserved in the BritishMuseum.—From a copy by M. The second leaf of thisdyptic being lost, the Greek inscrip-tion, which signifies, Receive thisobject, and learning the cause,is incomplete, and its meaningenigmatical. * Bossuets Histoire Universellc, p. 101, Firmin-Didot edition. THE POPES. Amidst these important engagements, the activity of Gregory found timeto superintend the relief of the poor and the education of the young. Hebuilt schools and hospitals in Eome, and increased the splendour of thechurch services by a judicious and well-conceived reform of sacred F. Clement, in his history of religious music, says, St. Gregory, notcontent with regulating the antiph
Size: 935px × 2674px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., booksubjectcostume, booksubjectmiddleages, booksubjectmilitaryar
