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At the same time that Columbanus was establishing his monasteries in Merovingian Gaul, Pope Gregory the Great began planning a mission to convert the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms located in present-day England. The pope wrote to leading Merovingians such as Brunhild asking for their support in this endeavor and to provide whatever aid was necessary for the missionaries. In 596, Augustine (597–604/10), future bishop of Canterbury, and his party departed Italy for the north, traveling through the Merovingian kingdoms to Kent where the papal mission established their headquarters at the old Roman town of Canterbury (map 4.1).1
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Corning, C. (2006). The British Church and the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms to c.620. In: The Celtic and Roman Traditions. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230601154_4
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