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THE RISE OF CHRISTIANITY IN BRITAIN
EARLY ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND
Germanic Tribes
5th Century
The Writer and
Historian Bede
8th century
English descendants of
three Germanic tribes
VIDEO – The
“Venerable” Bede
EARLY ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND
Angles Came from parts of Germany
Angle-land – Leaves nation empty
Saxons Lower Saxony in modern
Germany
Jutes Jutland peninsula in modern
Denmark
CHRISTIANITY VS. PAGANISM
British/Celtic Religion
Pagan
Polytheistic
Very different from monotheistic Christianity
What is “Paganism?”
Pagan “Foundation”
Roman “Building”
CHRISTIANITY ARRIVES
Unclear When or How
200 AD
Begins during the Roman Empire
Constantine
313 AD – Legalize Christianity
Theodosius I
391 AD – State Religion
ST. PATRICK (385 AD – 461 AD)
VIDEO – St. Patrick
Born in Roman Britain
Religious upbringing
Reckless childhood
Slavery
16 years old – Ireland
Herdsman – 6 years (Hears voices…)
ST. PATRICK
Visions
I saw a man coming, as it were from Ireland. His
name was Victoricus, and he carried many letters,
and he gave me one of them. I read the heading:
"The Voice of the Irish". As I began the letter, I
imagined in that moment that I heard the voice of
those very people who were near the wood of
Foclut, which is beside the western sea—and they
cried out, as with one voice: “We appeal to you, holy
servant boy, to come and walk among us.”
ST. PATRICK’S TEACHINGS
Patrick Uses Pagan
Foundation to Build
Christian Structure
Holy Trinity and the
Shamrock
The Color Green
The Number 3
HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
Feasts and Festivals Pagans!
Halloween (Samhain) Celtic, altered by the Romans
All Saints Day
Christmas (Yule) Pagan Midwinter celebration of Geol (pronounced Yule)
Easter (Ostara) Saxon goddess Eostre/Ostara
ST. PATRICK AND THE SNAKES
Banishing Snakes
Attacked him – 40-day
fast
Into sea
Ireland, New Zealand,
Iceland, Greenland
and Antarctica
No snakes!
ST. COLUMBA(521 AD - 597 AD)
VIDEO – St. Columba
Born In Ireland Baptized as a Christian
Monastic School Called one of the “Twelve
Apostles of Ireland”
Starts a Battle Exile to Scotland
Missionary to the Picts
VITA COLUMBAE
Book 1: Columba’s Prophecies
Book 3: Columba’s Apparitions
Book 2: Columba’s Miracles
Loch Ness Monster
ST. AUGUSTINE
Augustine of Canterbury
Archbishop of Canterbury
Founder of the English Church
Pope Gregory the Great
Sends Augustine to English king Æthelberht and his Kingdom of Kent
Converted Thousands
Mass baptism Christmas Day