. The Catholic encyclopedia; an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline, and history of the Catholic Church . . and his monks established the firstEnglish Benedictine monastery at Canterburj soonafter their arrival in 597. Other foimdations quicklyfollowed as the Benedictine missionaries carried thelight of the Gospel with them throughout the lengthand breadth of the land. It was said that St. Bene-dict seemed to have taken possession of the coimtryas his own, and the historj of his order in Englandis the historj- of the English Church. Nowhere didth
. The Catholic encyclopedia; an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline, and history of the Catholic Church . . and his monks established the firstEnglish Benedictine monastery at Canterburj soonafter their arrival in 597. Other foimdations quicklyfollowed as the Benedictine missionaries carried thelight of the Gospel with them throughout the lengthand breadth of the land. It was said that St. Bene-dict seemed to have taken possession of the coimtryas his own, and the historj of his order in Englandis the historj- of the English Church. Nowhere didthe order link itself so intimately with people and in-stitutions, secular as well as religious, as in the influence of saintly men, Wilfrid, Bene-dict Biscop, and Dunstan, the Benedictine Rulespread \th extraordinarj- rapidity, and in theNorth, when once the Easter controversy had beensettled and the Roman supremacy acknowledged(SjTiod of Whitby, 664), it was adopted in most ofthe monasteries that had been founded by the Celticmissionaries from lona. Many of the episcopal seesof England were founded and governed Dy the. A Benedictin Benedictines, and no less than nine of the old cathedrals were ser\ed by the black monks of the priorieattached to them. Even when the bishop was nohimself a monk, he held the place of titular abbotand the community formed his chapter. German} owed its evangehzation to the EnghslBenedictines, Sts. Willibrord and Boniface, whtpreached the Faith there in the seventh and eightlcenturies and founded several celebrated abbeysFrom thence spread, hand in hand, Christianity ancBenedictine monasticism, to Denmark and Scandina\-ia, and from the latter even to Iceland. In Spairmonasteries had been founded by the Visigothi(kings as early as the latter half of the fifth centurj-but it was probably some two or three lumdrecyears later that St. Benedicts Rule was adoptedMabillon gives 640 as the date of its introductiorinto that countrj (Acta Sancto
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