St. Augustine of Canterbury and a theology of place
Traveling to a strange and dangerous place, St. Augustine and his monks made it their home. No matter where you live, you can learn from their example.
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Traveling to a strange and dangerous place, St. Augustine and his monks made it their home. No matter where you live, you can learn from their example.
Nowhere is as rich in real cathedrals - cathedral churches, the seats of bishops - as Britain. There are 97 on these isles, 42 of them Anglican. They are, in a way, under attack.
Canterbury Cathedral is the seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury, head of the Church of England and the mother church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The present structure was built between 1070 and 1077 replacing an earlier structure that had been destroyed by fire. The Cathedral and the nearby St Augustine's Abbey and St Martin's…
No sooner do I reference Henry II’s role in the death of St. Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury, in last week’s column, news comes that Canterbury Cathedral hosted a dance party over the weekend.
St. Augustine, the first Bishop of Canterbury, was a monk of St. Andrew Monastery in Rome. In 596, he was sent by Pope St. Gregory the Great to evangelise...