Britain's First Missionary: St. Augustine of Canterbury and His Companions the Benedictine scholar who helped

the Benedictine scholar who helped shape the mind of Christendom

“Mother and Child

Faithful to the spirit of traditional Catholic devotion

and the shepherd who refused to let the wolves in

a wise and trustworthy sixteenth-century master of the spiritual life

Britain's First Missionary: St. Augustine of Canterbury and His Companions the Benedictine scholar who helpedIn, Britain's First Missionary, Fr. Brou details the establishment of the Catholic Church in the British Isles headed by St. Augustine of Canterbury and his companions. Excerpt: The companions with whom he had started on his own abortive expedition were still there. Gregory's example had fired their zeal, and so forty were found who under the inspiration of God's grace offered themselves for the work. At their head was Augustine, prior to the convent,