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Augustine or Austin,

  Augustine, or Austin, St.. The First Archbishop of Canterbury, and the greatest of missionary monks sent to wind over Britain to Christianity monks sent to win over Britain to Christianity under the papacy of Gregory the Great(A.D.596). He gained King Ethelbert to the faith of the church, all the more easily perhaps because his queen, bertha. was already a Christian. Augustine is said to have extended his efforts as far north as the Humber and as for west as Wales, and (by one account) to have baptised 10000 persons in a single day. He died at Canterbury on the 26th of May probably A.D 607