(This is the Gregory called the “father of church music”… Gregorian chant and all that. It is here that he met his friend Gregory who would go on to become the pope known as Gregory the Great. But we know he rose up the ranks to become the prior of the monastery of St. Augustine of Canterbury.Īugustine of Canterbury was not from Canterbury- in fact, he was an Italian monk about whose early life we know very little. Today is the feast day across various church bodies for St. NOW, if you did not know there were 2 important Augustine’s only about a century apart that is ok. The professor responded curtly, “this has been a lecture on Augustine of Canterbury” and the place erupts with laughter. During the Q&A he goes up and said “I have read almost everything Augustine has written and I have NEVER heard any of this”. A world renowned historian came to lecture and was discussing Augustine and his work as a missionary in England. So there was this precocious graduate student at Oxford. Welcome to the Christian History Almanac brought to you by 1517 at.
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