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The Catholic Church has been in this country since some few years after the Crucifiction. It was a player in the development of the faith of the Catholic Church world wide! It was known as the Celtic Church, in history, because the main group in this country was and still is Celtic! At some time around the fifth century a struggle broke out between the Celts and the Saxons for paramount control. We understand the Saxons were mainly pagan and in the midst of the war, S.Gregory the Great sent Augustine as a missionary to the Saxons. He must have been a very brave man to traverse Europe in this cause, but he was not a very wise one, indeed he appears arrogant! He landed in Kent and was met by a Catholic Bishop and was given a Catholic Church belonging to the Celts. He met the British Bishops near Bristol and was quite rude towards them and alienated them. he wanted to be their Chief and had only just been made a bishop himself, if indeed he was at that time! The role he played of ,'converting the Anglo Saxons, as strengthened by the King, who married to a Gallic Christian ,'converted,' and his subjects on the principle of one turns all must. It was success of a kind. After Augustine died there was an upsurge of paganism and two war chiefs, one British [Penda,] and a Saxon ravaged the Country slaughtering Christians of any race Celt or Anglo saxon. All but one of Augustine's Bishops did a runner and left for the Continent.

Britain was reconverted by a mixture of British, Irish and Scot's endevour. All from the British Church, Augustine's role with his one remaning accolyte has to be viewed from this aspect!

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