THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH IN THESE
ISLANDS BEFORE THE COMING
OF AUGUSTINE.

 

Three Lectures delivered at St. Paul’s in January 1894

 

BY THE

REV. G. F. BROWNE, B.D., D.C.L.,

 

CANON OF ST. PAUL’S,
AND FORMERLY DISNEY PROFESSOR OF ARCHÆOLOGY IN THE
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE.

 

 

PUBLISHED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE TRACT COMMITTEE.

 

 

LONDON:
SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE,
NORTHUMBERLAND AVENUE, W.C.; 43, QUEEN VICTORIA STREET, E.C.
NEW YORK: E. & J. B. YOUNG & CO.
1894.

 

 

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CONTENTS.

LECTURE I.
	page
Importance of the anniversaries connected with the years1894-1897.—Christianity in Kent immediately beforeAugustine.—Dates of Bishop Luidhard and Queen Bertha.—Romano-British Churches in Canterbury.—Who were theBritons.—Traditional origin of British Christianity.—St. Paul.—Joseph of Arimathea.—Glastonbury.—Romanreferences to Britain	5
LECTURE II.
Early mentions of Christianity in Britain.—KingLucius.—Origin and spread of Christianity in Gaul.—British Bishops at Councils.—Pelagianism.—BritishBishops of London.—Fastidius	54
LECTURE III.
Early Christianity in other parts of these islands.—Ninian in the south-west of Scotland.—Palladius andPatrick in Ireland.—Columba in Scotland.—Kentigernin Cumbria.—Wales—Cornwall.—The fate of the severalChurches.—Special rites &c. of the British Church.—General conclusion	107

 

 

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The Christian Church in these
Islands before the coming
of Augustine.

 

 

LECTURE I.

We are approaching an anniversary of the highest interest to all Englishpeople: to English Churchmen first, for it is the thirteen-hundredthanniversary of the planting of the Church of England; but also to all whoare proud of English civilisation, for the planting of a Christian Churchis the surest means of civilisation, and English civilisation oweseverything to the English Church. In 1897 those who are still here willcelebrate the[Pg 6] thirteen-hundredth anniversary of the conversion ofEthelbert, king of the Kentish people, by Augustine and the band ofmissionaries sent by our great benefactor Gregory, the sixty-fourth bishopof Rome. I am sorry that the limitation of my present subject prevents mefrom enlarging upon t

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