![]() ![]() The group sent Augustine back to Gregory to ask that they might return home. ![]() However, Pope Gregory did not think that their concerns were valid. ![]() There is a lot of risk for things to get lost in translation, among other dangers. After all, it’s extremely difficult to preach and connect with people when you don’t speak the same language. 66).īesides the fact Augustine and his companions don’t want to go to Britain because they think it’s full of pagan barbarians, I do think they had some valid concerns. And they consider Britain to be “a barbarous, fierce, and pagan nation” (pg. After all, none of them actually speak any English. The group “progressed a short distance on their journey” (pg. Augustine and his companions agree to go, but soon it becomes clear to them that they might be in over their heads. (As there are already a good amount of Christians in Britain, I believe that Pope Gregory wants to convert the Anglo-Saxons in Britain, as the Britons have already been converted.) Gregory chooses “his servant Augustine several other God-fearing monks to preach the word of God to the English nation” (pg. and in the tenth year of his reign as pope, Pope Gregory decides to send missionaries to Britain. ![]() The first excerpt is from Book One, Chapter Twenty-Three. Augustine of Canterbury Source: Wikipedia ![]()
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