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Chapter III of the Council is sweeping in its prohibition: 'That no bishop shall in any way interfere with any monasteries dedicated to God nor take away forcibly any part of their property'. Canons of the penitential grant to the monastic community the right of selecting its own abbot (canons I and III). Moreover, the sins or errors of abbots do not give grounds to a bishop to seize monastic property (canon V). Also consistent with Benedictinism is the disapproval expressed against double monasteries in canon VIII: Conclusion

All the way through the next two centuries, Britain experienced the reintroduction of Christianity and the political amalgamation of England. Christianity was reintroduced to Britain from two fronts: Ireland and Rome. The Irish Celtic church which had been pressed back into Wales, Cornwall, and Ireland to be precise, made moves ahead among the Anglo-?

Saxons in the north from a premature base on Lindisfarne Island. Guided by St. Augustine of Canterbury, the Roman Catholic Church moved forward upon the Anglo-?

Saxons from the south (Carey, 2000).

In 596, Pope Gregory I (Gregory the Great) sent an army of missionaries to England under the management of Augustine (of Canterbury, not Hippo). Augustine and his revered monks came at the court of Ethelbert, King of Kent (at Canterbury in Kent), a foremost monarch in the middle of the other Anglo-?

Saxon monarchs, in 597. Ethelbert wedded Bertha, a Christian Frankish princess, and being influenced by Bertha and Augustine, Ethelbert accepted Christianity and was baptized in 603. Augustine was christened archbishop by Pope Gregory and got a citadel in Canterbury from King Ethelbert. For these...

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Celtic Christianity had been introduced from Ireland to Scotland by Saint Columba and then to Northumbria by Saint Aidan. In gradual progression, Northumbria came to be revered as the dominant kingdom amongst all the kingdoms of Britain. Rome was victorious in its bid to control the spiritual life of Britain when Northumbria's King Oswy formally established Roman Christianity as the state religion at the Synod of Whitby. Four years afterward (668), Theodore of Tarsus turned out to be archbishop of Canterbury, fashioned dioceses, and gave the English church its fundamental structure.
The gathering of Celtic and Roman Christianity in Northumbria formed a swell up of scholarship unsurpassed in Western Europe:

The Venerable Bede, a Northumbrian monk, was the most exceptional European scholar of his epoch He is revered for his Ecclesiastical History of the English People. Alcuin of York, a different Northumbrian, was selected by Charlemagne.

References

Bettenson, H. (Tr.) St. Augustine Concerning the City of God Against the Pagans (London 1972)

Bradley, I. Celtic Christianity: Making Myths and Chasing Dreams (Edinburgh 1999)

Carey, J. King of Mysteries: Early Irish Religious Writings (Dublin 2000)

Cook, a.S. The Anglo-Saxon Cross (Hamdon Ct 1977)

Higgitt, John. Vision and Image in Early Christian England. The Catholic Historical Review, April 2004

Henry, Patrick. Remembering for the Future. The Virginia Quarterly Review, Winter 2001

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Bettenson, H. (Tr.) St. Augustine Concerning the City of God Against the Pagans (London 1972)

Bradley, I. Celtic Christianity: Making Myths and Chasing Dreams (Edinburgh 1999)

Carey, J. King of Mysteries: Early Irish Religious Writings (Dublin 2000)

Cook, a.S. The Anglo-Saxon Cross (Hamdon Ct 1977)
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